George Washington Quotes
Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.
Quotes to Explore
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I don't know anything about music.
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When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.
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It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
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If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.
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You want 100% and 100% to make 200, instead of 50 and 50 making 100.
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It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.
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Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.
