George Washington Quotes
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I've always tried to stay fit, but I'm a little guy. I'm 5-foot-7.
David Eigenberg
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It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
Ben Shahn
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There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the height of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.
James Victor Scott
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
Idries Shah
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Police figures show that, every month, more than 40 people nationwide commit suicide due to their escalating debts.
Jason Lee
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When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman Nero, two representatives of humanity faced off, one of the best and one of the worst. One lived for prosperity on earth, the other didn’t. One now lives in prosperity in heaven, the other doesn’t. We remember both men for what they truly were, which is why we name our sons Paul and our dogs Nero.
Randy Alcorn
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If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.
R. O. Blechman
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If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.
George Eliot
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I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.
Arturo Sandoval
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A RIPE EXPERIENCE OF GERMAN pillows in country places leads me to urge the intending traveller to be sure to take his own. The native pillows are mere bags, in which feathers may have been once. There is no substance in them at all. They are of a horrid flabbiness. And they have, of course, the common drawback of all public pillows, they are haunted by the nightmares of other people. A pillow, it is true, takes up a great deal of room in one’s luggage.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.
George Washington