George W. Plunkitt Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg -
A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
Jack Ma -
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.
Naftali Bennett -
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.
Karl Pilkington -
I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
Natalie Cole -
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
Adam Clarke
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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.
Sam Yagan -
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.
Camille Paglia -
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.
Amitabh Bachchan -
…the cold deflation of crapula…
Anthony Burgess -
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.
Hippocrates -
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.
Ken Liu
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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.
Alessia Cara -
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
Bryan Magee -
Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.
Corin Nemec -
I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
Alexander Payne -
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!
Jenna Elfman -
To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
Octave Mirbeau
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
Larry Wall -
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
Melina Mercouri -
You have demonstrated again and again that it is useless to appeal to you on any thing but patriotic motives. You are for America, you are for our Constitution, you will not be tempted to take any action that will imperil our society or our Government.
Calvin Coolidge -
Mr. Trump's election has caused a tectonic shift in advertising - just as it has in media more generally - and themes that might have once seemed innocuous or patriotic have suddenly become politically charged, controversial, and divisive.
James B. Stewart -
You can’t be patriotic on a salary that just keeps the wolf from the door.
George W. Plunkitt