Harry S Truman Quotes
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.
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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
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An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.
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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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I have that weakness. I think women are one of the most beautiful creations that could be given by nature, by God.
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Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''
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There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.
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It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.
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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
