John Wesley Powell Quotes
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
Quotes to Explore
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
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I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
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'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Life should be great rather than long.
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I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.
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My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonement of the Savior of all mankind, who has given us the plan of salvation which will lead us into eternal life, where God and Christ dwell.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.
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Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
