Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.Charles B. Rangel
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My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.
Olesya Rulin -
Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
Os Guinness -
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittain -
I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
Lata Mangeshkar -
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
Bashar al-Assad -
The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
Ralph Nader
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott -
I am not interested in splitting the white vote.
Harold Washington -
The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.
Lael Brainard -
Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.
J. J. Watt -
Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer,And sent me away with a Flea in my ear.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right...The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
H. L. Mencken
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It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story 'The Great Orley Farm Case.' But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore, - Orley Farm.
Anthony Trollope -
'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'
Elvis Presley -
The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.
Bob Marley -
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
Aldo Leopold -
Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
Lloyd Alexander -
I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.
Nick van de Wall
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A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
Orville Wright -
I had been a premed student, and the way you got through premed was to work extremely hard and then harder.
Ann Dowd -
Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.
Thomas Arnold -
Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.
Charles B. Rangel