George Washington Quotes

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

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• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

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• What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

  

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• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

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• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

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• Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

  

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• My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

  

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• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

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• I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

  

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• My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

  

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• Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.

  

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  • Change
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• I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.

  

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• Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.

  

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• Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

  

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• But the fall of Ramadi has galvanized the Iraqi government. So, with the additional steps I ordered last month, we’re speeding up training of ISIL forces, including volunteers from Sunni tribes in Anbar Province.

  

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• To begin with, Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun. What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect to buy a semi-automatic weapon? This is a matter of national security.

  

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• It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

  

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• The stat is the score. And when you don't win that score, nothing good happens.

  

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• Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

  

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• The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

  

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• Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

  

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• I think the best thing I ever did was never tell anyone I wanted to be an actor. I find if you tell people what you're dreaming about, they'll usually come up with lots of reasons to not chase your dreams.

  

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• The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

  

  George Washington
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Mathematics