Eli Whitney Quotes
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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Smite, Smoot, Be rugged and rough, Smut if smitten Is front-page stuff.
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I'm not the man to say that failure's sweet,Nor tell a chap to laugh when things go wrong;I know it hurts to have to take defeatAn' no one likes to lose before a throng;It isn't very pleasant not to winWhen you have done the very best you could;But if you're down, get up an' buckle in-A lickin' often does a fellow good.
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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
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I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
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I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.
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Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.
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Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
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We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do, our choices, that's what defines us.
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My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.
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I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.
