Jefferson Davis Quotes
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
Quotes to Explore
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
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We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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I love action movies.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
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Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
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My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.
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Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.
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All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.
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Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
