Samuel Johnson Quotes
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
Rand Paul
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
Harold Pinter
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
Karl Pilkington
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
Samantha Power
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Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.
Lamar Alexander
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Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
Ralph Abernathy
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What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
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The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
Ted Turner
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The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct.
Confucius
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson