Michael W. Young Quotes
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We have assurances by the president and vice president that the American side says they will follow the ABM treaty, ... Any possible plans must be agreed to, and that's what we discussed.
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I don't mean to be arrogant, but if we're executing our skills there's not a side that can get close to us.
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
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Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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A dry soul is wisest and best.
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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.
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Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.
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They didn't have a guy who could guard me. When I could drive and dish off, we could get baskets.
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I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.
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The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!
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I tend to over extend myself without really thinking throughthe realities of completing so many projects in a year, which generally means I'm going to be a little bit behind. I suppose that's the nature of the beast.
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We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
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The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation.
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Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.
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We were built to be rhythmic.
