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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
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I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60 -
I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Speech at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, February 24, 2004 -
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball.
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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008 -
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
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If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
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If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
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If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.
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