Baltasar Gracian Quotes
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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You give me the feeling that the universeWas made by something more than humanFor something less than human.But I identify myself, as always,With something that there's something wrong with,With something human.
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For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.
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I'm from Minnesota! I used to work Knuckleheads at the Mall of America as a stand-up. I spent New Year's there once. I'm not trying to namedrop.
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In defense of the right to...marry whom we please - we might quote some of the basic principles of our government and suggest that in some things individual rights to tastes should control....If a good man from Maryland sees fit to marry a disenfranchised woman from New York, there should be no legal impediments to the union.
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We are the world.
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It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.