George Washington Quotes
The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.
Quotes to Explore
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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I don't know anything about science.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
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'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
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The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.
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Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.
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I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
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Christianity, like most religions, works with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are 'Clean again' and can start to sin again without thinking about your old sins. We believe that people should ask themselves why they sinned. They should show some responsibility.
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It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.
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The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.
