Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was capable of.
Jacqueline Woodson
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
Narendra Modi
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
Kate Winslet
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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
Zhang Zhidong
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I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
Lady Gregory
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Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.
Sam Brownback
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
Lamar Alexander
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
Carlene Carter
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In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.
Albert Einstein
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To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Melville Fuller
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I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.
Viktor Yanukovych
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You have a mighty army, but the greatest force is the one that you don't have to use.
Conn Iggulden
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In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was capable of.
Jacqueline Woodson