Arthur Wellesley Quotes
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
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The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.
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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
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The first blow is half the battle.
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I don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do that.
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This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'
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But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.
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The clarinet has always been my baby. I just didn't know that for a while.
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If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.
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For American families, Universal pre-K is an essential piece of the puzzle that not only allows their kids to get a good start, but it also allows mothers to remain on the job earning a paycheck and helping our economy grow.
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We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
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When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
