B. W. Powe Quotes
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
B. W. Powe
Quotes to Explore
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I love cycling.
Natalie Dormer
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
Carl Sagan
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
Orison Swett Marden
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
Vidya Balan
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
Aaron Neville
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
Laura Linney
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
Yaya Toure
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
Hans Hofmann
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
Kara Swisher
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
Tanya Tucker
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
Vernon L. Smith
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Oliver Herford
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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
Gavin MacLeod
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Oscar Wilde
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I immediately felt so comfortable there. Or if not comfortable, at least willing to bear the discomforts because they fit the awkward places in my heart.
Orson Scott Card
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'You mean he's dead too?' asked Suzy. 'Yes,' said Dusk. 'This morning, in his cell. The guards outside were also slain, and only Sir Thursday's boots remained.' 'Sounds more like he escaped,' Suzy said. 'His feet were still in the boots,' said Dusk.
Garth Nix
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This goes to demonstrate the fact that John Howard established this inquiry in order to bring about his own absolution, not to bring about any form of accountability.
Kevin Rudd
