Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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You can't impose a legacy.
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I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
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I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
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Tempus edax rerum.
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Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.
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Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.
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Administration is, or ought to be, a necessary overhead to aid production, and should at all times be kept as low as possible.
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To-day we can affirm that the capitalistic method of production is out of date. So is the doctrine of laissez-faire, the theoretical basis of capitalism… To-day we are taking a new and decisive step in the path of revolution. A revolution, in order to be great, must be a social revolution.
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Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
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The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
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I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.
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You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.
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Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
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When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships.
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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
