George Washington Quotes

My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.

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• I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
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  • Know
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• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
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• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
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• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
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• It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • God
  • Believe
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• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • News
  • Journalism
  • Early

• The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

  

  Ice T
  • Way
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  • Listen

• Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • God
  • Language
  • Rude

• With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Art
  • Want

• Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party Communist Party of China and the downfall of the State People's Republic of China.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Party

• They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.

  

  Edmund Burke

• The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

  

  Maimonides
  • Desire

• Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: 'Well, who are the best people to live with?'

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • People
  • Live

• Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

  

  Warren Farrell

• The Expanded Learning Time program is a voluntary one - only districts and schools that want to apply are in the program and supported by the state to pursue their plans.

  

  Chris Gabrieli
  • Time
  • Learning

• I think the building is in very good condition.

  

  Hank Williams
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  • Condition

• I think we need to go after Baghdadi, as well, make that one of our organizing principles. Because we've got to defeat ISIS, and we've got to do everything we can to disrupt their propaganda efforts online.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Principles
  • ISIS
  • Baghdadi

• Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

  

  David Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • Car

• September felt sure that her shadow and everyone’s shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Broken
  • Shadow
  • Part

• My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Opinion
  • Immigration