William O. Douglas Quotes
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
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Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
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Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
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We can ask ourselves daily what we have done to make the world a better place, to make someone smile, to help someone to feel more secure, etc. It's the simple things which have the greatest effect. We must never underestimate the strength of a smile or act of kindness.
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It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
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If you're making all your money simply betting on interest rates, that's not a business. Flow is a business. On the outside, they look the same for a while. But when you dig into them, no, they weren't exactly the same.
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Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.
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Regardless of whether we are in an upturn or a downturn, our goal is to ensure the Volkswagen Group reaches the top of the automotive industry.
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'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring.
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We're not going to win every single one.
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If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.
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It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care
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What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality. Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.
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Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
