Jimmy Carter Quotes
In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and to have a new American president come in and say, "That is not good enough - let's do much more, and do it quite rapidly," took him by surprise.Jimmy Carter
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
Bam Margera -
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.
Barack Obama -
For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.
Kevin Bales -
Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
Virginia Woolf -
Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?
Vladimir Nabokov
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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
Alexandre Dumas -
The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.
Joshua Lederberg -
In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.
Judy Holliday -
Culture creates awareness around issues, it entertains and saddens, it can encourage commitment to a social contract or strengthen personal hygiene in public. Culture is that powerful. Culture creates the icons we follow, that we see ourselves in, that we orient ourselves toward. It's culture that tells us to love or hate, accept or tolerate, embrace or reject.
Negin Farsad -
If that agreement is not implemented by force on the ground, it will not be effective.
Javier Solana -
There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.
John Stuart Mill
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My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.
Carrot Top -
In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and to have a new American president come in and say, "That is not good enough - let's do much more, and do it quite rapidly," took him by surprise.
Jimmy Carter