George Washington Quotes
Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?
Quotes to Explore
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
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Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.
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We're going to move a lot of crude (oil) in this country, and we have to learn how to do it very safely. 'Buffett: Moving Oil By Rail Safely Is A Major Industry Concern' Investing.com (24 April 2014)
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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When smut's to be smitten Smoot will smite For G-d, for country, And Fahrenheit.
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Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.
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Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
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I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
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I'm on this journey to inspire people and to encourage them.
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When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.
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Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?
