William O. Douglas Quotes
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.
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People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.
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Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.
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A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
