George H. W. Bush Quotes
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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I like Joe Sakic. Coming out of Buffalo, I obviously like Alexander Mogliny, Pat LaFontaine. Hasek is up there. Miroslav Satan. Whoever seemed to be a good player at the time I'd watch. Jagr too. I tried to learn a lot from those guys.
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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Women are over 50 percent of the population.
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I have a lot of artists who I just love to hear their music, and I'm a fan of them.
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Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.
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My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease.
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I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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Losing is tough.
