Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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I am deeply convinced that no interference from the outside, in any country, even a small one, let alone in such a vast and great power as the United States, can influence the final outcome of the elections. It is not possible. Ever.
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While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.
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The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
