George Washington Quotes

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

George Washington

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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.

Gary Lineker
- World
- Day
- Media
The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.

Karen Bender
- Story
- Learned
- Create
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

Rachel Cohn
- Book
- Wind
- Teenager
Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

Rahul Dravid
- Good
- Important
- Skills
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Albert Einstein
- Life
- Question
- Religion
Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

Yann Martel
- Long
- Why
- Humanity