Winfield Scott Hancock Quotes
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Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.
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Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.
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The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.
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He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss.
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You can talk all you want about consensual reality, Jilly, but that doesn’t change the fact that some things are real and some things aren’t. There’s a line drawn between the two that separates reality from fantasy.
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'You’re confusing me.''But not deliberately so,' Coyote says. 'Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.'
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One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.
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I had thought that I would stop in 2017, but my coach has told me to stop saying that as I may continue into 2018. I'm not thinking about it at the moment.
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There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.
