John McCrae Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.
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I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
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We are responsible for our incredulity.
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I don't much like looking back.
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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
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I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
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I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it.
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The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
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We say South Africa is an open country, and when people come here, we must deal with them with dignity and respect within the parameters of our Constitution.
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...an old man is twice a child.
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I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
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Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.
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I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow.
