Stuart Symington (William Stuart Symington, Jr.) Quotes
I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
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The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
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What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.
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Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.
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When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.
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I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.
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Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of the new, modern chef is different.
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Multifaceted and textured characters are always more intriguing to me. You never really just want to play one note. It becomes a bit monotone and boring.
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Our differences are what make us great. Let us think about how we can extend this appreciation to people of color, undocumented immigrants, and other members of the community.
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In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it's a fact.
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Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?
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The funeral and the marriage, now, alas!We know not which is sadder to recall.
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I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.
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You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.
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I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
