William Howard Taft Quotes
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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I am actually very well-organized. All I need to do is open my closet and just choose. But, you see, although I carry many different choices with me, I always end up wearing a tank top, jeans and sneakers.
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It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
