William Howard Taft Quotes
That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
Quotes to Explore
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.
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What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.
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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.
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My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
