Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
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I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
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The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.
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A siloed approach between suppliers doesn't really help hospitals well enough.
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I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.
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Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
