Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.
Quotes to Explore
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
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When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
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Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
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I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
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Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
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It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.
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I’ve lived here for 20 years and I have been a citizen for 10 years. I hope I am a good one. I know I don’t take it for granted. I feel I am an awfully lucky person to be an American and I think that every naturalized American and every person born in this land should kneel on his knees every morning and utter a prayer for being an American.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. ... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
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It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.
