George W. Plunkitt Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.
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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
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I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.
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…the cold deflation of crapula…
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Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.
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Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.
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In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.
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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
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Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.
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Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.
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I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
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I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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I've said all along that we have three or four ordinances on the books now that have been utilized effectively, ... and we also utilize the state fire code in addition to that.
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
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And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.
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You can’t be patriotic on a salary that just keeps the wolf from the door.
