George Washington Quotes
System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.
Quotes to Explore
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
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I always remember liking school.
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What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
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In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.
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I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.
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I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.
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I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
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The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
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I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
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The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.
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I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
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The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.
