Harry S Truman Quotes
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
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I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!
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There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.
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A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.
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Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.
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The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.
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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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Reform is born of need, not pity.
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Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.
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If you want to live like a Republican, you've got to vote for a Democrat.
