George Washington Quotes
I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.
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The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
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What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!
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The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.
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In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.
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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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He seemed to have the whole package. Canada must be proud of him.
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What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong?
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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
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And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.
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I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.
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Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.
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I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
