Fisher Ames Quotes
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
Fisher Ames
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.
Sam Worthington
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
Kangana Ranaut
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.
Bill Kurtis
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Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
Carl Icahn
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Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.
Albert Pike
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The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
Jonah Goldberg
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Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
Fisher Ames
