Colin Powell Quotes
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
Quotes to Explore
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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Who goes through more pain? The one who's gone or the one who got left behind?
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
