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All Quotes Collection
"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow."
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"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
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"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect."
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"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
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"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
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"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
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"Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors."
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"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."
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"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."
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"My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one."
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"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
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"On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously."
Hope,
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"When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism."
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"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding."
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"I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going."
Want,
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"I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive."
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"Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs."
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"When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience."
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"One should make morals judgements for oneself."
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"Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear."
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"I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform."
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"Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states."
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"If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix."
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"If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas."
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"Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman."
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"Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one."
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"No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages."
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"Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic."
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"Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world."
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"Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader."
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"Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business."
40
"As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery."
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"Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income."
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"As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet."
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"Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true."
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"Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular."
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"The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same."
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