John Buchanan Robinson Quotes
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In the wake of the United Kingdom's vote to 'Brexit' the E.U., we Europeans will indeed have to rethink how our Union works; but we know very well what we need to work for. We know what our principles, interests, and priorities are.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.
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One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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Five letters here just for everybody out there in Packer-land: R-E-L-A-X, Relax. We're going to be OK.
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I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.
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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
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I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.
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You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
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Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
