John Adams Quotes
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face – it gives me a natural lift.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
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I certainly know that I owe it the Copernican theory this duty, that as I have attested it as true in my deepest soul, and as I contemplate its beauty with incredible and ravishing delight, I should also publicly defend it to my readers with all the force at my command.
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Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
