John Quincy Adams Quotes
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.
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It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the environment and for the air we breathe. The use of biodiesel is a positive step toward minimizing pollutive emissions and greenhouse gases. By focusing on school buses, we can affect the health and wellbeing of the people most susceptible to that pollution - our children - today.
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There is no conservative party left in Washington. Conservative thinkers and writers who were to be the watchdogs of orthodoxy have been as vigilant in policing party deviations from principle as was Cardinal Law in collaring the predator-priests of the Boston archdiocese.
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Salvation is one of the Bible's great words, but many don't understand that the Bible presents salvation in three stages. Many people consider salvation a one-time, past event. They forget its ongoing nature.
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We always need friends. And I think we come out of these highly social environments with university, college, wherever we were, and getting to a new city could be daunting. It can be lonely, and it's almost easier to find a date than it is to find a friend.
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
