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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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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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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Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
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I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi?
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.
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The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
