Thomas R. Marshall Quotes
I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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Sports saved my life.
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I try to get to the gym whenever I can, eat healthy, mostly protein and vegetables, avoid processed sugar and minimize carbs, but I don't feel like I need to go crazy if I want pasta now and then.
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Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.
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It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.
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Owen says my book will be forgotten in 10 years; perhaps so, but, with such a list of prestigious scientific supporters, I feel convinced that the subject will not.
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The label didn't want me to do this look. But cutting my hair, it made me stand out as an artist. I don't care who likes it-this is me.
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They don’t believe in liberty. They don’t believe in China before the Communists. There is only one simple, clear task: to protect their control, to maintain their governing. Which is such a pity.
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While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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I have to be honest: I don't get many, if any - I don't know that I've ever received a phone call in my office from somebody that says they've been discriminated against based on their sexual orientation.
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I deal only in facts, that's why I'm a cocky fuckin' bastard.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
