James Cook Quotes
The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
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Even if I'm not so into the specific celebrities who are sharing images of themselves looking "bad," I think it's an amazing contribution to the conversations about beauty that we have online.
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The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
