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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When I was a kid, I saw 'Peter Pan,' and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the 'bad boys.'
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Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
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A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.
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If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.