William H. McRaven Quotes
You cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
Quotes to Explore
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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NSS strongly supports the usage of space to provide benefits to people living on the Earth. The Iridium satellites enable first responders to communicate rapidly during an emergency anywhere in the world.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.
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My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
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The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.
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You cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
