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 moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.
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There's so much more danger in someone where you really don't know what they're going to do, and you don't know what they're really capable of, rather than someone who's trying to be physically tough.
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The transfiguring touch was to come, it seemed from a girl's lips; but it had not; he kissed, and life remained uncharmed. ...at the bottom of his heart, he was still expecting the transfiguring touch to come, some day, from something he was to obtain or do, perhaps to-morrow.... Then he had by accident found out the sigil's power...
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I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.
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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
