Rufus Choate Quotes
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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I want to win football games.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
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As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.
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To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.
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Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
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The popular rallies at Rabaa al-Adawiya and other squares across Egypt will defeat despotism and terrorism in the long run. But in the meantime, any solution that fails to restore the public's confidence in the ballot box and falls short of alleviating the sense of victimhood in the Morsi camp will be doomed to failure.
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Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
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As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.
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One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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England’s genius filled all measure Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure, Gave to the mind its emperor, And life was larger than before: Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare’s wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
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You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.
