Elihu Root Quotes
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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I came from the bottom. Now I'm the main event and UFC champion.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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The only thing you ever have is now.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.
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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
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This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.
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I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.
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Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.
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My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.
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I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.
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No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
