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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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
