Zhang Zhidong Quotes
We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.Zhang Zhidong
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. Bradley -
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright -
In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
Lady Gregory -
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'
Nathan Myhrvold -
Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
Park Shin-hye
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. Wells -
I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
Ted Nugent -
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Jackie Mason -
Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
Owen Paterson -
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
Natalie Imbruglia -
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Sam Houston -
By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
Mandy Moore -
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
Sam Brownback
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In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.
John Pople -
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
Dani Shapiro -
I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
Fantasia Barrino -
We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
Zhang Zhidong