Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
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I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
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I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
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The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
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I was into Batman. I was into Spider-Man.
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As you write about your life, there's a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It's interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.
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Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
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As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.
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The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.
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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.
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You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies.
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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.
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Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
