Homer Quotes
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
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As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
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I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.
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The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
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Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.
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When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.
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Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.
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We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.
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That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?
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Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
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Men and women who venture to someone else’s war through choice do so in a variety of guises. UN general, BBC correspondent, aid worker, mercenary: in the final analysis they all want the same thing, a hit off the action, a walk on the dark side. It’s just a question of how slick a cover you give yourself, and how far you want to go. If you find a cause later then hold on to it, but never blind yourself with your own disguise.
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Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
