Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. (On Ronald Reagan)
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
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I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.
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Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.
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I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.
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Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself in a thousand ways, from a sincere thank you to friend or stranger, to the mute, up-reaching acknowledgment to God--not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past.
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When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.
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Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.
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It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.
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The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
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Nobody thought I was dumb enough to do it twice in a row.
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Obtained professional advice to ensure that we followed applicable laws.
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.
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I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.
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The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.
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He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. (On Ronald Reagan)
