Paul Sarbanes Quotes
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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All my books are optimistic!
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
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The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
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I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
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I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
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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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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
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The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
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The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.
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Some people have certain beliefs, and I have my own belief, and we can agree to disagree on certain things.
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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
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What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.
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He's a big offensive threat, he has great vision, and he plays with his head up. He's got that great, quick wrist shot that you can't teach. He's got a good power-play mind-set. ... We just have to keep playing him.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.
