Harry S Truman Quotes
When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
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I try to do my best.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
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I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.
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This little bathtub smells like ass.24.
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«We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»
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'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.
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Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.
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I really try to balance my feminine and masculine energy when I write.
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An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
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Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.
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Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.
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I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.
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This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.
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When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
