George McGovern Quotes
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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I understand only three things - films, fitness, and food.
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My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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It is a paradox that men will gladly devote time every day for many years to learn a science or an art; yet will expect to win a knowledge of the gospel, which comprehends all sciences and arts, through perfunctory glances at books or occasional listening to sermons. The gospel should be studied more intensively than any school or college subject. They who pass opinion on the gospel without having given it intimate and careful study are not lovers of truth, and their opinions are worthless.
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When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.
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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
