Gannicus Quotes
There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.
Quotes to Explore
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
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Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.
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Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.
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Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
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There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.
