George Washington Quotes
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
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In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.
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When I think of something that really is me, that I'm proud of, is honestly, I would have to say, I've never sold my soul along the way... All those things, you're selling your soul, and I don't think I have.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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'Oh indeed!' exclaimed the King. Then he turned to his servants and said: 'Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.'
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'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
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So what does it matter where it was when it was hit? We could have sunk it if it'd been tied up on the quayside in a neutral port and everyone would still have been delighted.
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The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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The relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.
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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
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The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
