“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”
- Henry Knox- Copy
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“ The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be meaningful, must be a personal thing. ”
- Howard Whitman- Copy
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“ Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ As a result of these new conditions, the States, cities, and towns were welded together, and population and prosperity increased rapidly in those inland sections which had formerly languished because they had no means of easy and rapid communication. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ It's been a long, long journey. I just wanted to see whether I could get a nomination. And I've got one, I'm happy now and my work is done. ”
- Michael Caine- Copy
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“ I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long. ”
- George Carey- Copy
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“ After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride. ”
- Jay London- Copy
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“ I will not be able to support his nomination on the Senate floor. ”
- Jim Bunning- Copy
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“ I have not stated in any conversation with anyone that I'm going to run for the presidential nomination. ”
- Dick Gephardt- Copy
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“ It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill. ”
- Jim Bunning- Copy
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“ I would like to see the nomination withdrawn. If I were in the Senate today I would vote against it. My guess is, she will not be confirmed, and she will be withdrawn. ”
- Pat Buchanan- Copy
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“ I will reserve final judgment on the nomination, but I expect him to do very well. ”
- Susan Collins- Copy
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“ The recent nomination of John Roberts has spurred our country into a conversation about the court's role in our society. ”
- Tom Delay- Copy
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“ I don't think he had a choice if he was serious about running for the nomination in '07 or '08. ”
- Scott Reed- Copy
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“ I'm prepared to do everything I can to stop the nomination of Justice Pickering. We can do a lot better. ”
- Charles Schumer- Copy
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“ It's an excellent naming opportunity for potential benefactors. ”
- James Webb- Copy
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“ We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
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“ I have a requirement for myself in making designations of elements. I need to have full language and I do not want the language to be only space. ”
- Michael Graves- Copy
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“ If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. ”
- Richard Cecil- Copy
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“ Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. ”
- Robert G. Ingersoll- Copy
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“ The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. ”
- Pierre Bonnard- Copy
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“ As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ As a result of the feminist revolution, ''feminine'' becomes an abusive epithet. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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