George Mason Quotes
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
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Training for a fight is never easy, regardless of the opponent.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.
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I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
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I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.
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Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
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The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
