William Appleman Williams Quotes
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
Gary Lineker -
I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'
Banks -
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
Albert Einstein -
Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.
L. W Rogers -
In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.
Lindsey Vonn -
Even the poor should give something to charity.
Nachman of Breslov
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In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
H. L. Mencken -
Brian and I will vote for some kind of smoking ordinance while Jack is against it.
Frank Rizzo -
The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
Socrates -
The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
Albert Einstein -
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
John Maynard Keynes -
Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.
Melissa de la Cruz
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Russell Baker -
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
Vaclav Havel -
I think there needs to be a general consciousness raising among consumers. So many consumers aren't aware of the backstory. They see the end product in the supermarket but don't know all the steps that it took to get it there, who helped to get the food there.
Bryant Terry -
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Abraham Lincoln -
A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors
Karl Deutsch -
Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.
William Appleman Williams