George Mason Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.
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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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The world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?
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I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.
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Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.
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At the end of the day, we need to realize that segregation is not the human condition at its best. Which isn't to say we need to all be the same. It simply means we need to embrace each other's differences to help tell our stories together.
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The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
