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Quotes by American Authors
"The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses."
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"Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle."
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"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
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"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"
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"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
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"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
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"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."
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"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."
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"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
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"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."
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"I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster."
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"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."
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"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
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"Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music."
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"Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students."
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"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
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"Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision."
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"I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening."
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"I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right."
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"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles."
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"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers."
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"PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy."
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"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."
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"During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed."
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."
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"Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors."
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"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
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"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
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"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
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"We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news."
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"The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day."
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"I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington."
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"You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people."
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"In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color."
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"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep."
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"I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress."
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"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."
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