Robert Baden-Powell Quotes
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
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It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name.
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You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
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You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.
