John Major Quotes
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Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
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Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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While most people... were seeking to modify the principles of either relativity or quantum theory, we surprised ourselves (and many other people) by succeeding in putting them together without modifying their principles.
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Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.
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Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.
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Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world’s policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world’s midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.
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I like men who are more in their heads.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
