George Washington Quotes
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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I get so into the moment.
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The England team is a team that never, ever stops.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'
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My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
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Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
