George Washington Quotes
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart and from it to the heart of your brother. Never the language made for tongue may speak it, it is uttered only in the eye in those manifestations of that love which a man has for his friend, which passeth all other loves.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.
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I have one quote I very often read to myself, from a very good friend: 'Forget the people around you now; remember the little boy who was racing in go-karts, what you were dreaming of and what he wanted to achieve one day and what was his goal. Race for him.'. I fell in love with the sport, I love racing. The amount of satisfaction I get just going around in a Formula 1 car makes me smile. So if it is a bad day then you tend to come out and say it's horrible and you don't enjoy. But if you had to pick between that and doing nothing, you would always pick that.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Smaller societies must prepare the way for greater.
