Jon Meacham Quotes
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When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.
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When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.
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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
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It's just so cool to be able to go out to dinner and buy my mom's dinner now. You know what I mean? She's just done so much for me. I love that I can give back to her now because she's the most amazing woman ever.
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I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.
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You can never take a day off, because there's an All-Star on every team.
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The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences.
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Among the group of people waiting at the fortress was a schoolgirl in a brown and yellow uniform holding a green eiderdown quilt and, by the loop at its neck, a red hot-water bottle.
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The world is dark and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
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Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption!
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It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.
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I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.
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For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.
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In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
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I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
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President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.
