F. Thomson Leighton Quotes
There's no silver bullet. We have to change as we go. The problems aren't going to go away overnight.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'
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I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
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People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
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I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation.
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As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.
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From our group, we've had joint ventures with a lot of international companies: Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Sara Lee, currently with Hershey's and Tyson. We've learned a lot of the best practices.
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I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
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The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.
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We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
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We had two long drives there that we didn't finish well in the second half, our guys felt like defensively, ... We gave up four big plays, which resulted in a lot of yardage there.
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I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.
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I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.
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Here's my system. Music that's five years old should be a nickel. Music's that's three to four years old, you should pay a dime. If it's two years old, it's 50 cents and for new singles, 75 cents.
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
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The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.
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There's no silver bullet. We have to change as we go. The problems aren't going to go away overnight.
