William Howard Taft Quotes
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
Quotes to Explore
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
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It's an incredible honor to be nominated by the Academy.
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My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?
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There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
