Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
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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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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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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
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When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.
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Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.
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I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.
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It is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.
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"I think to be a true minimalist you should almost nearly be invisible yourself."
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One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
