William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.
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But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.
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Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.
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Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.
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We do not believe in oversupplying the market. When you are a large company, you can afford to do it. When you are a small player, your flexibility gets reduced.
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The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
