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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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.
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I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.
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Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
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I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.
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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.
