William Howard Taft Quotes
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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I look formidable.
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
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Tech never comes back the same.
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One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.
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What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.
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It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.
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There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.
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Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
