Constantine Karamanlis Quotes
We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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Trade and investment have come to be the foundation, the ballast, of the U.S.-China relationship, providing great stability.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.
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We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.
