“ Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain. ”
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“ If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. ”
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“ Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ”
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“ You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ”
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“ Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ”
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“ Football combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ”
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“ The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being. ”
- George William Curtis- Copy
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“ Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout Bang! ”
- George Will- Copy
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“ Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!". ”
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“ Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ”
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“ A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called the Kingdom of Heaven had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, it will all blow over now… ”
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“ Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see. ”
- George William Russell- Copy
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“ Romance, like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ”
- George William Curtis- Copy
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“ You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ”
- George Will- Copy
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“ Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ”
- George Will- Copy
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“ The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny arf - the sound of a lap dog. ”
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“ Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ”
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“ Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ”
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