John C. Calhoun Quotes

I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.

John C. Calhoun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850

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Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

Jim Leach

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When you lose your passion to be a WWE Superstar, there's no point in going back.

Robert Maillet

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There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

Max Frisch

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I live in places where, although I don't take public stands, I'm surrounded by liberals, and I've spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what's in common beneath those conversations.

Anand Giridharadas

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In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book 'The Social Origins of Private Life.' It should have been 'As Pompous as You Want to Be.' Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y.

Stephanie Coontz

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I am a kamikaze gadfly.

Mo Rocca

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Bodily discomfort and emotional fear and attachment make the dying uncomfortable and fearful. So, to help those dying people, I think modern medical science has a lot of facilities to reduce pain, or perhaps not to reduce pain, but not to experience pain.

Lobsang Tenzin

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You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

Josef Albers

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Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.

Dee Rees

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Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

Chris Gabrieli

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I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.

Brian Azzarello

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I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

Ashish Sharma

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