Calvin Coolidge Quotes

Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
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• I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
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• Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

  Cameron Dallas
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• I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

  

  Taylor Dane
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• Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Popular

• We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Past
  • Fighting
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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
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  • Men

• With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Control
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• I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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• Toleration is the best religion.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

  Gary Jennings
  • People
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• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

  

  Dan Hicks
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• Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Power
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  • Quiet

• Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
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• I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Home
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• A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art
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• To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • People
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• I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
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• I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
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• After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.

  

  Frank Gaffney
  • War
  • America
  • History

• Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Cold