Winfield Scott Quotes
Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.
Winfield Scott
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
Vicente del Bosque
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
Ralph Abernathy
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
Naomi Watts
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I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.
Parker Young
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
Taylor Caldwell
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That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
Barbara Mandrell
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My father is my inspiration.
Mahesh Babu
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Walter Lippmann
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The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.
Edie Sedgwick
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I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
M. C. Escher
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Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Ayn Rand
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The Negro race, instead of being that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it, is entitled, judged by the facts of history, to a place close by the side of the Saxon.
Wendell Phillips
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I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time.
Hillary Clinton
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When you invest in high-quality brands, it pays off with high-quality audiences and, ultimately, high-quality advertising rates.
Jim Bankoff
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I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
Elizabeth Taylor
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A lot of what I've written that's made its way onto my records I've written in Kansas, which is interesting because I've never written about Kansas. But I go have these experiences. and I'll be back at my parents house, and it's like I'm in a safe incubator.
Kevin Morby
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Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.
Chris Matthews
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I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
Kate Beckinsale
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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
Sam Smith
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Given a choice between being happy or being efficient and safe, I'll take efficient and safe.
Bob Buckhorn
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Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.
Winfield Scott
