Walt Whitman Quotes
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
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Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
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The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.
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I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.
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If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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There is no progress in art.
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The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
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Persistence is self-discipline in action.
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I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.
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We're a different team when he's playing like that.
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Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not enough to get you where you need to be.
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Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.
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[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.
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Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !
