William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
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In life, you have to go through something to get to something. From that, the inspiration comes having something of substance to talk about; otherwise you're just considered to be fluff.
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Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.
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If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.
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Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.
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Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!
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I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.
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Swag mastah from Doncastah!
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The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.
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If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.
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I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
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Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
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I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
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All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.
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In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.
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But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.
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Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.