Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
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Δικαιοσύνης καρπὸς μέγιστος ἀταραξία.
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It was a nice win for us, a game that we shot the ball well. They just kept coming back and found a way to get back in the game with various plays. It was a great game to watch as a fan.
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I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend's children, but I don't think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don't have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.
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Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.
