Garet Garrett Quotes
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That's got to stop. And we've got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
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Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.
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These dangers inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have to-day produced their full harvest of human waste, of inequality and inefficiency, were fully recognized in the last century at the moment when such ideas were first put into practice.
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We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the magnificent strength to revere is alive. To revere is not a thing for the petty and lowly, the incapacitated and underdeveloped. It is a matter of tremendous passion; only what flows from such passion is in the grand style.
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We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake - like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.
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History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
