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My God, what have we done?
Every man paddles his own canoe.
One must always be civic-minded.
White lies are ushers to black ones.
There's no getting blood out of a turnip.
Some dreams are best not to wake up from.
Life is not fair and people are not equal.
My first occupation was to map the country.
Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.
The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!
Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.
The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.
In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian.
I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.
The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.
There's nobody that wants the president to be successful more than I.
Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle.
Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up-so many emails to read!
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.
Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.
I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.
I think, as a professional courtesy, when the president asks you to dinner, you go.
The FBI is unique in that it straddles both law enforcement and counterintelligence.
Arson is the single most fundamental form of terrorism.It`s the simplest terrorist tactic.
Met you as a stranger Took you as a friend Hope we meet in Heaven Where friendship never ends
What I said was, ‘the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails.’ I stand by that.
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.
Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.
I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.
Now you have Donald Trump ready to execute policy on the basis that the Muslims are the problem, not ISIS. Oh Jesus, it's a circular firing squad.
I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
We were certainly worried about the deployment of chemical weapons across Syria by all parties, frankly, by the Islamic State as well. So it was a concern.
Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis
The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'
We're talking about nuclear war with North Korea. We're talking about Russia. Does it feel like the world has shifted? Are we all just in Donald Trump's reality show now?
So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.
You can`t differentiate between an Islamic terrorist and a Christian terrorist. Or a politically motivated terrorist who`s anti-abortion or someone who may have differing views.
I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.
All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.
When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.