William Howard Taft Quotes

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

William Howard Taft

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930

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The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both.

Joe Rogan

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Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.

John Burnham Schwartz

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I wasn't brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on - Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur'an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.

Jennifer Connelly

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I think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.

Anderson Cooper

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I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

Max Beckmann

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During the screen test for 'Red Widow' was the first time anyone ever told me that I was good at auditioning.

Sterling Beaumon

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I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

Sturgill Simpson

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American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

Robert Dallek

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I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.

Rosemarie DeWitt

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Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of what I do comes from the jazz tradition. In terms of improvisation, interaction, feel and overall concept, Jazz is my main source of information and inspiration.

Miguel Zenon

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When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.

Jonathan Krisel

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I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

Ciaran Hinds

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