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All Quotes Collection
"Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three."
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"These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri."
44
"It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country."
46
"I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions."
47
"I am my own Universe, I my own Professor."
80
"When I teach people, I marry them."
47
"Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work."
36
"The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children."
44
"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."
39
"When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget."
17
"No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle."
13
"You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea."
44
"What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well."
56
"One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh."
47
"It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand."
36
"It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do."
42
"I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously."
41
"There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous."
43
"Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got."
Want,
38
"Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back."
34
"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."
43
"The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone."
49
"It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this."
37
"It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life."
51
"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake."
41
"The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature."
50
"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."
50
"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."
38
"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."
21
"There is no certainty; there is only adventure."
35
"We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter."
50
"WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical."
55
"Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform."
38
"When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like."
44
"What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes."
44
"Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good."
44
"Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States."
53
"The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us."
42
"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."
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