Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.
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Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.
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A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.
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I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.
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I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves.
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It's nice when little teams win.
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Kobe is going to have a lot of detractors. Unfortunately, we are not 10 games over .500. We are going to be in the playoffs, that says something about his performance.
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There are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.
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If you're passionate about something, you believe in it, then you have to be consistent. And you have to put in the hard work that it takes to be successful.
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The dollar is coming under pressure across the board, following the FOMC because of the dissenter.
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Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.
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Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
