Ezra Stiles Quotes
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.
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Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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The more gunk I have on my face, the less free I feel.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.
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I know I have a hit show on my hands.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.
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Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.
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I worked every waking minute, nights and weekends, in order to make enough money to buy those summers off, and even then we wouldn't have made it except that my mother helped out with a yearly check and my father bought me a car when my old one die
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.
