George Washington Quotes
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.
Quotes to Explore
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
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I secretly want to be a rapper!
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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I'd be more than delighted to go find energy in Club Med. But we've tried and did not find it.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.
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It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.
