James Stockdale Quotes
I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
James Stockdale
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky
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It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
Malcolm Turnbull
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The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
Ted Yoho
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
E. L. Doctorow
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In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.
Bernhard von Cotta
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the octopus's secret wishis not to be a formal fishhe dreams that some time he may growanother set of legs or soand be a broadway music show
Don Marquis
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Oscar Wilde
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If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?
Sebastian Faulks
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I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
James Stockdale
