George Washington Quotes
I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.
Quotes to Explore
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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I’m saying that men go from control by their mothers to control by their wives, and this is the horror men’s lives. And feminism refuses to see this.
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The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.
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Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, ‘Let Wooster do it.’
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.
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I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.
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In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title. You don't get elected. I don't know how the king and queen of Denmark would respond if they suddenly had to do a speech, if the people would vote for them. I don't know how that would end up.
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If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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Aviators live by hours, not by days.
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People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.
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At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.
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I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.
