George Washington Quotes
To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.
Quotes to Explore
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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
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For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.
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They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.
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The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.
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Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.
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The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.
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I don't anticipate having him in the near future. But as I told him, we're nearly two months away from playing games, and a lot can happen in two months.
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We'll see. At this point, we anticipate him playing. Start or not depends on how we feel practice is going, what we feel we need to do. Depending on what further happens from here, we'll see.
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I didn't anticipate all that's happened and who we've missed.
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Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.
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Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.
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We are here to celebrate the upcoming merger along with honoring the past of two great airlines. The merger is proceeding well and we anticipate closing the deal in late September or early October.
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I would anticipate there will be some additional allocations.
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In my case, my size is so small that if I want it but don't buy it, I might miss the opportunity.
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A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
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If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.
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For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.
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I just need to focus on myself. I think nobody should focus on others, whether they actually have a problem with Chinese swimming or not.
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To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.
