John Hancock Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
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And this is yet another reminder that the world must unite, we must be together, regardless of nationality, or race, or faith, in fighting against the scourge of terrorism. We can - and will - defeat those who threaten the safety and security of people all around the world.
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I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies.
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Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.
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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
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Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.
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I can't imagine dating someone famous. I try to stay away from that as much as I can.
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I've been able to dig deeper into awareness of my own sinfulness, and take baby steps toward spiritual healing. I'm able to worship in an ancient communion full of awesome beauty, one that is now being blessed with quiet revival.
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I've had presidents in my lifetime - and I'm old enough to have seen several - that I really detested, but they're still my president. I've had presidents that I've really liked.
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I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.
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When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.
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The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
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We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together.
