Jon Meacham Quotes

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

Jon Meacham

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I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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I like to keep a book underneath the pillow that I'm not sleeping on so I can reach over and grab it when I wake up. I don't always do that, but I like to. I try to make sure it's a book and not my laptop. I also try not to get too excited about who might've been trying to contact me while I was asleep.

Jenny Zhang

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By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

John Dalberg-Acton

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Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Andrew Shue

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The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed, theological debate: it involves economic and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment.

John Cornwell

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Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.

Michael Dirda

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The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.

Tom Dempsey

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Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.

Luanne Rice

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The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.

Deborah Tannen

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Stars are always bigger. They bring the audience to the theatres. More than that, they do a lot of work in a film, and they are always on top. I am in no way competing with them.

Anushka Shetty

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Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

William H. Wharton

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I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

Poppy

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