Sam Rayburn Quotes
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Sam Rayburn
Quotes to Explore
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
Damon Galgut
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
Vicente Fox
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
Hannah Simone
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
A. E. Hotchner
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
Maelle Gavet
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
Zack Greinke
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
Zig Ziglar
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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
Gary Johnson
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Nadia Comaneci
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
J. B. Pritzker
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
Natasha Trethewey
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
Origen
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
Sam Donaldson
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
Mahesh Babu
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
Victoria Osteen
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
T. J. Perkins
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In conformity with the recommendation of Congress, a proposition was early made to the British Government to abolish the mixed courts created under the treaty of April 7, 1862, for the suppression of the slave trade. The subject is still under negotiation.
Ulysses S. Grant
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So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, 'Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!'
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.
Bonnie Hammer
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
Gary Bauer
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My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Sam Rayburn
