George F. Kennan Quotes
The dilemma is this: We all know that this aid cannot materially affect the course of events of China. We are obliged to put the bill before Congress by virtue of our past commitments and of the pressures that exist in favor of aid to China.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.
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What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?
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The dilemma is this: We all know that this aid cannot materially affect the course of events of China. We are obliged to put the bill before Congress by virtue of our past commitments and of the pressures that exist in favor of aid to China.
