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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Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.
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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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At least nobody was harmed and he wasn't harmed. He's back.
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I am not very regimented unless I have to be. I wish I was someone that could just write every day, but I tend to work on specific projects for a specific period of time and then stop.
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However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.
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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.
