Harry S Truman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
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The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.
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Give me to drink mandragora.
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I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.
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Both Iraqis and coalition people often exaggerate the role of foreign infiltrators and downplay the role of Iraqi resentment in the insurgency.
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Out of limitations, new forms emerge.
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I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.
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No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.
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Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.
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Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
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We worship money instead of honour.
