James A. Garfield Quotes
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I believe that sex is good and so is the body.
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Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
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The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
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Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.
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My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.
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I don't get claustrophobic.
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Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
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Everybody's a nun.
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Only God singing this song of you... makes true light... somehow possible.
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When you look like I do, it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck E Cheese.
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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
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Frazer's account of the magical and religious views of mankind is unsatisfactory; it makes these views look like errors.
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I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.
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Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.
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Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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I would rather be defeated than make capital out of my religion.
