Mercy Otis Warren Quotes
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
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Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.
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We learn only to ask more questions.
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In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.
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I think everyone is making a lot of money, whether it is the actors, the producers, or the TV channels.
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This is not a time for America to 'believe in magic.' This is a time to drive education forward. This is a time to drive the economy forward. This is a time to drive America forward. We must do it together. And we must re-elect Barack Obama as President of the United States.
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Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.
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I know a lot of people think L.A. and they see a picture in their head, but those people obviously don't know me, because I sit on a couch every day. That's my idea of a good time - just being in a sweat suit.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
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I'm so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking about a fairly small set of scientific questions all related to the psychology of achievement, and I'll never get bored of those questions. That's something I couldn't say to you when I was 22 or 25 or probably even 31.
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Come, Benjamin, put your arm around me and we shall be comfortably one, mon semblable-mon frère!
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I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.
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I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.'
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Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
