George Washington Quotes
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Those who go along get along.
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
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We tend to intensely scout an area and then use our imaginations to make the best use of the geography.
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If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.
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Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.
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They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.
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The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
