George Mason Quotes
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
George Mason
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
Gary Carter
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The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.
S. J. Rozan
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The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
Galeazzo Ciano
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
Salman Rushdie
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
Hank Aaron
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The Germans told me 'We're going to conquer the world!' and I don't regret working with a German record company at all, because for my career it was great, but they wanted to control me, direct me and restrict me. They wanted absolute discipline and that's not the life for me, so after a few years of that I wanted out.
Amanda Lear
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I pondered what I should do and wasn't sure. Then it just finally became clear.
Mary Pierce
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So far, everything I've worked on has been deeply connected to reality. I'm not constitutionally opposed to working on something completely fictional, either. It just happens that a lot of these stories have crossed my path in a way that makes them intriguing, but I'm up for anything that's intellectually engaging.
Andrew Jarecki
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That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
Francois Hollande
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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!
Utah Phillips
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The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
George Mason