Jon Meacham Quotes

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

Jon Meacham

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Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

Joe Nichols

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If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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I want John Legend to sing at my wedding.

Sloane Stephens

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I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.

Tom Hanks

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I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.

Romeo Santos

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We want to exert pressure on wealthy people.

Mohammad bin Salman

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Just the fact that that Europe album 'The Final Countdown' came out in 1986 and 'Rad' came out in 1986... I'm starting to think that maybe 1986 is my favorite year, of all time!

Jorma Taccone

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I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.

Chris Kyle

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Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

David Shields

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In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.

Chuck Close

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The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.

Antonio Munoz Molina

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I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.

Peter Landesman

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