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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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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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within consciousness. As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily 'within consciousness. That's the only difference. We didn't create compassion, but it's flowing through us-or it could. The phase change that we're in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."
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What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
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Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
