Harry S Truman Quotes
An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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My features are completely ethnic.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.
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When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
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Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
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I use Shazam all the time.
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In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Therefore we should not try to alter circumstances but to adapt ourselves to them as they really are, just as sailors do. They don't try to change the winds or the sea but ensure that they are always ready to adapt themselves to conditions. In a flat calm they use the oars; with a following breeze they hoist full sail; in a head wind they shorten sail or heave to. Adapt yourself to circumstances in the same way.
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An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.
