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Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's…
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep…
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Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future
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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is…
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When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement,…
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a…
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last…
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I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's…
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given…
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
— William Blake
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
— Taylor Caldwell
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why?…
— Albert Camus
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on…
— Robert Collier
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is…
— Colin Powell
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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and…
— Elie Wiesel
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The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than…
— Marin Mersenne
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