William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
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Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
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I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
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We cannot allow American taxpayers to foot the bill for tax revenue grabs in Europe and elsewhere.
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My father's in the military, so we moved a lot. I was born in Jersey but grew up in Maryland until we moved to L.A. to pursue my acting career. Music came into it after that.
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It's all about being a part of something in the community, socializing with people who share interests and coming together to help improve the world we live in.
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I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
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We want Trump to be hugely successful, so we don’t want to handle a bill that’s going to fail in a few years, Trump ran on price-discovery and competition across state lines, getting the price down - the price is going up by 20 percent and the bill we are getting ready to vote on, once again, goes back and does too much emphasis on the coverage aspect
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
