Tom Vilsack Quotes
What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.
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How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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Dem Bunde der Künstler einen bestimmten Zweck geben, das heisst ein dürftiges Institut an die Stelle des ewigen Vereins setzen; das heisst die Gemeinde der Heiligen zum Staat erniedrigen.
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Es giebt keine Selbstkenntniss als die historische. Niemand weiss was er ist, wer nicht weiss was seine Genossen sind.
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But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.
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Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
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Ce qui remplit le temps c'est vraiment de le perdre.
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The palace is not safe, when the cottage is not happy.
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And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.
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What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think happened or, indeed, might have happened. And so Dickens reinvented London, Joyce, Dublin, and so on.
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Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.
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What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.
