John Dos Passos Quotes
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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If you really want to make a relationship work, at some point in time, you're going to have to make some sacrifices and do some things that are a little bit uncomfortable.
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The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
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Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.
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Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
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My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.
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The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
