Zachary Taylor Quotes
I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I will keep working hard!
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
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Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.
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Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By praying together.
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We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately - but we still shall strive. We may make mistakes - but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.
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I don't go to parties in general.
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I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.
