George Washington Quotes
To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.
Quotes to Explore
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I think all politicians lie.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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It is legal because I wish it.
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The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
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I grew up with a Mediterranean diet, so I like clean, simple food. But if there's pizza on a menu, I always end up ordering it. I can't resist it.
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I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
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There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.
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To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.
