As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.

Author: Robert Dallek

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I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they bel

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Figuring out what you want out of life is hard. Having the courage to full fill it, is even harder.

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Life is a pilgrimage. Each moment is to be lived in depth, because each moment contains God, hidden

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I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind

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You weren’t alone,” he says, making sure I hear every word. “And you weren’t floating.”“How do you k

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In the end it was worth it.

Author: Anthony T. Hincks
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Such as we are made of such we be.

Author: William Shakespeare
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'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that to

Author: Jonathan Kozol
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I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

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Conscience doth make cowards of us all,” but conscience is what gives us our humanity, the factor th

Author: Ann Rule
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The pursuit of passion is a decisive purposeful living.

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Yeah? You want to do some other worldly hanky panky? She laughed and almost fell off the couch. "Han

Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
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When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge

Author: Idries Shah
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Toys? When a man—a dom—said toys, he didn’t mean stuffed animals or baseballs.

Author: Cherise Sinclair
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See--two who dreamed that dream, and you were one.

Author: Caris Brooke
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Although he assumed she’d naturally submit to him, he obviously believed she was still her own perso

Author: Cherise Sinclair
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All I have is a voice.

Author: W.H. Auden
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Embrace love

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Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
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What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

Author: Art Blakey
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But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The las

Author: Raymond E. Feist
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Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized commun

Author: Sharad Vivek Sagar
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The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

Author: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tr

Author: Lemony Snicket
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I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runne

Author: Rachel Corrie
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You ought to endure and complete your own race of life.

Author: Unknown
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Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all

Author: Johnny Depp
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For what is more lovable than failure?

Author: Mervyn Peake
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than tha

Author: James A. Baldwin
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The will to dare, the power to act.

Author: Unknown
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My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinat

Author: Dylan Lauren
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas an

Author: Kanye West
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To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

Author: Paul Cézanne
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Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

Author: Martin Marty
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Life’s short when compared to eternity, but eternity is only worth it because of life.

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Will, is the precursor of possibility, and the foresight of potential.

Author: Justin K. McFarlane Beau
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Some justice, though did not deal with kindheartedness or good feeling toward others. No, justice ha

Author: Evan Meekins
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Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pern

Author: Joseph Heller
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When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilien

Author: Louise Erdrich
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Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzl

Author: Maria Goeppert Mayer
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I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusio

Author: Haruki Murakami
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The nature of God is in every man

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Can you two keep from tearing each other's throats out during however long it takes to find Nash?" L

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I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I d

Author: Casey Neistat
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Some of us are crèmes brûlées, unfortunately in the presence of those who would rather have corn dog

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I haven't spoken to my wife in years-I didn't want to interrupt her.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield
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Unfortunately...I missed out on the California Gold Rush a century before...I'll be dammed if I miss

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When faced with difficulties, a humble, understanding, appreciative and selfless person finds it eas

Author: Janvier Chouteu-Chando
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Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one com

Author: Jane Wilson-Howarth
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All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poiso

Author: Paracelsus
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It's not that heroes have no fear; it's just that they understand what it takes, to get the job done

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My talent is my pride

Author: Jesustibab
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Most important, I hope you grow into a woman who loves herself. It is not an easy thing, self-love.

Author: Jodie Sweetin
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Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

Author: Gregory Maguire
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I really hate you."It was loud and clear in his brain. "Your first words. How sweet." "Get out of my

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He sent Eliza a small smile before turning to Lawrence. "What say you and I return to the hotel for

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What was it about this infuriating woman that reduced him to a twelve-year-old at the pool?

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I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss

Author: Cornell Woolrich
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The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation o

Author: Catherine of Siena
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The hardest bit of information to extract is the first piece.

Author: Robert Ferrigno
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Nonetheless, writing regularly, inspiration or no, is not a bad way to eventually get into an inspir

Author: Alice W. Flaherty
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Love is revealed progressively.

Author: Mensah Oteh
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Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting d

Author: Annie Besant
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Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.

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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not

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Tears and grief are good for reflection, moving on is still the best solution.

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When I am at my work each dayIn the fields so fresh and greenI often think of riches and the way thi

Author: Patrick McCabe
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When you promote and market yourself, your service, your product - it cannot be from a script or tex

Author: Joseph C. Kunz
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I just may be the strangest person you will ever know. I am filled with too many oddities and too fe

Author: Tyler Knott Gregson
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This day is the most recent set of events to define you. Every day changes your life. Every last one

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks.

Author: Amit Kalantri
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The sun shines not on us but in us.

Author: John Muir
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Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong

Author: E.M. Delafield
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Author: Malcolm Forbes
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For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

Author: David Paul Kirkpatrick
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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Author: Ethel Watts Mumford
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As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.

Author: Ann Coulter
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Was this how the characters in Harry Potter felt when the spoke the name of You-Know-Who?

Author: Lisi Harrison
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Love thou thy dreamAll base love scorning,Love thou the windAnd here take warningThat dreams alone c

Author: Ezra Pound
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Our confident hope is our great trust in God.

Author: Unknown
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[S]ecrets are like stars. They blaze inside the heart and ultimately could be explosive. But there a

Author: Jennifer Jabaley
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Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

Author: Michael Hutchence
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One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile

Author: Patricia Crone
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Don't worry, I can hander it!

Author: Hidekaz Himaruya
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Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someon

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One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with

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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary th

Author: Maria Montessori
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The strange thing about magic is how easily one can feel familiar with it. Much like a dream, its me

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Vulnerability really means to be strong and secure enough within yourself that you are able to walk

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When peace has thoroughly permeated our brain, mind, and body, we can create it as our reality. I fi

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One man encompasses all of humanity. Harming one man is harming humanity

Author: Bangambiki Habyarimana
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You don’t command your plate to provide you with food and it does. And you don’t have to get bored i

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I

Author: Vera Wang
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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possesse

Author: E. F. Benson
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We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

Author: Anthony Burgess
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Arch your back, Alisa – show me that gorgeous ass. Show me what belongs to me.”Your voice is enthral

Author: Felicity Brandon
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The man who reproaches you is unfair

Author: Unknown
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Praise a large domain cultivate a small estate.

Author: Virgil