William Howard Taft Quotes
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I received free health care.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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I never read the tabloids.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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Yes, everyone deserves to have national health care in a great nation such as ours. We just need to find ways to do it and not be overtaxed.
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We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
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I grew up playing football and baseball and moved on to play college baseball, and, you know, as a kid, my dream was to play professional baseball.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
