Harry S Truman Quotes
When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would act, and act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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Figure out who you are.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
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Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
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I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
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We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.
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I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
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The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
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When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would act, and act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened.
