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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My mama was the man of my household.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.
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I look for the sources of domination and misery that are so deep down that they apply to the system and the apply to its supposed opposition also. … Basically, revolutionaries never go far enough, and if they're not going to go far enough, they should stop upsetting people. Or killing them, for that matter.
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The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
