William Gilmore Simms Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.
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For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.
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There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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Certain developments in Russian politics and foreign policy in recent months have given us pause
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I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.
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Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
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Sorry, is my new Djinn name Mushroom ? Because I don’t like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit, David. Just so you know.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.
