Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future - and of the future of America.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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Africa has no future.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.
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It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
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People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
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The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.
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We are the youth, we can make coolness for our future, it's up to us. Go green and hate hate.
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I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.
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The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
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When I think of the future, I think of my 15 year old son Connor and my 12 year old daughter Meghan. I worry about their future because your kids are as important to you as mine are to me. And I am unwilling to leave our children with so much debt.
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That is what made America great: that everyone had the opportunity to be a winner. And I think it's still there. I'm certainly a beneficiary of it.
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Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.
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In a way, the debate about Margaret Thatcher in Britain has just gotten fossilized in this notion that she is either this she-devil who wrecked the industrial base of the country and ruined the lives of millions, or she is the blessed Margaret who saved the nation and rescued us from our post-war decline.
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LeBron is like a coach. He is a coach on the floor. He has a great basketball IQ.
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Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future - and of the future of America.
