Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
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Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.
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It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.
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The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
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A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.
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Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
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That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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I really do believe that the bottom line that creates transformation in the individual is the ability to focus your attention in an ever greater and more subtle way, and that follows the whole path of the limbs.
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To survive as a species on this planet, we're going to have to see ourselves as Earthlings.
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So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind of cross-border trade to happen. So therefore the idea of borderlessness has a performative contradiction within it which has to be kept alive.
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One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
