Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.
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I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.
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In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.
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I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.
