Francis Parkman Quotes
Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
Francis Parkman
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
Ina Garten
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
Kapil Sibal
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
Frances McDormand
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
Paloma Faith
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
Ma Jun
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For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.
Yuna
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There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
Randeep Hooda
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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Gary L. Francione
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What came out of 'Ocean's Twelve' is actually great because you do one 'Ocean's Twelve,' and you're more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry.
Vincent Cassel
