William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
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I'm so grateful to have been raised on love and to be so in love with my wife.
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I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.
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Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.
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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
