George McGovern Quotes
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.
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My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
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Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know he - oh, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on those dollar bills.
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We are capable of doing even better things than we believe we are, if we challenge each other to do it.
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Through the principle of associated habit, the same movements of the face and eyes are practised, and can, indeed, hardly be avoided, whenever we know or believe that others are blaming, or too strongly praising, our moral conduct.
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Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.
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If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them.
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When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.
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I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.
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I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.
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I went cage diving in South Africa with Great Whites, and that was fun. Sweden was cool.
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The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.
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Someone like Bernie Sanders can be in office for 30 years, but he's not the establishment.
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My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
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It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.
