George Washington Quotes
Let the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
Jack Adams
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
Ralph Baer
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
Lapo Elkann
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
Inga Muscio
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
Garry Marshall
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
Salman Rushdie
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
Dallas Willard
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I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.
Harland Williams
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When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
Nazanin Boniadi
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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
Zadie Smith
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
Abbey Clancy
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
Daisy Bates
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
Foxy Brown
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Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
Owen Feltham
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
Sam Kean
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Let the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.
George Washington