Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.
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You have to remember that for more than half my life - probably until my children were born - acting was everything to me. I was obsessed by it, and I spent so much time just trying to get to the point where I was being paid to do it. Literally, I spent every waking moment thinking about acting.
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The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
