Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Quotes to Explore
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
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Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.
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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
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Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.
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We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.
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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
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We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance.
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Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.
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If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
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We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
