George Washington Quotes
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The military executes policy decisions.
Jack Keane -
The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
Samuel P. Huntington -
My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
Hailey Gates -
I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
Beatrice Dalle -
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo
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It should not be the government running the economy.
Quico Canseco -
I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
Larry David -
I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
Jackie Robinson -
I was a sports kid.
Mahershala Ali -
I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
Ralph Fiennes -
I am no prophet - and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,And in short, I was afraid.
T. S. Eliot
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
Fernando Pessoa -
Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
'Lambe them, lads! lambe them!' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
Walter Scott -
The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
Alan Keyes -
My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.
William Merritt Chase
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Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
Carl von Clausewitz -
And now the sagacious reader, who is capable of reading into these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception of the serious feelings with which I then set foot in Emmendingen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
There you stood on the edge of your featherExpecting to fly.While I laughed, I wondered whetherI could wave goodbyeKnowin' that you'd gone.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
I once asked Aragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, 'You have to invent it.' When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me.
John Cage -
May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence
George Washington