William Whipple Quotes
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Let us have peace.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
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I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
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My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.
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Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.
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They could care less about the public. The public comes in third. Number one is keeping their power. Number two are the special interests, the people footing the bill. Finally, the public good might be third - if they can profit from it. If there's no profit, they could care less.
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In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
