Paul Tsongas Quotes
We were never meant to be the world's greatest debtor nation. We were never meant to have our ancestors' patrimony sold to the highest foreign bidder.
Quotes to Explore
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.
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What is important is how much service you can give to the world and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.
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I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
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Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
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We were never meant to be the world's greatest debtor nation. We were never meant to have our ancestors' patrimony sold to the highest foreign bidder.
