Patrick Henry Quotes
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Think and grow rich.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.
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I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.
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The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once I got back home and began to follow the war on TV and in the press I began to see this enormous con game - I can't think of any other word for it - that government and the military was foisting on the American people, especially on the young men of my generation, and even worse, the young men of my generation who weren't particularly economically or intellectually privileged.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
