Quotes 21 till 40 of 206.
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder... wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker.... There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it.'' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
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As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
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At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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