John Dryden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
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I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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I have been very pleased at the response we have got for 'SVSC.'
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
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The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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Contrast force and morality with each other. How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
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Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?
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He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.
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I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.
