James K. Polk Quotes
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.
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Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
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Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.
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I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
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Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.
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the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
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My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.
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Trátame como debes tratarme, no como merezco ser tratado.
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Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.
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I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
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Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.
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No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
