Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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California always struck me as a police state.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.
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A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
