George Washington Quotes
Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.
Quotes to Explore
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
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Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'
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Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.
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When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?
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I think the building is in very good condition.
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Together, we are prepared to lay a foundation for a more secure future for the entire world
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We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.
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Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
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Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
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Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!
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'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987
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I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.
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I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.
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Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
