John Quincy Adams Quotes
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
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Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.
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… Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane — she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it.
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The enemies of freedom will not prevail.
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There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
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This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.
