Harry S Truman Quotes
With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.
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The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up.... He has no discipline.
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Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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Don’t eat cheese. There are a million things to eat that are not cheese.
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I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.
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Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.
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Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
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Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.
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In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.
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With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.
