John Sergeant Wise Quotes
The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
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Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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No makeup can substitute for faces that have actually been under the sun.
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I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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I go to an all-Hawaiian school, and we learn everything about being Hawaiian. We have a really deep respect for the water and the land. We say, 'mauka to makai,' mountains to ocean. I believe if you take care of the ocean, the ocean will take care of you in return.
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The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
