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James Monroe Quotes

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: April 28, 1758 - July 4, 1831

Topics

Character People Free Taxes Sacred

The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.

Business Thought Worst Worst Thing

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

Day Law Free Voting Wrong Vote

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Travel Laugh Friends Die Worry Cry

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

Broken People Brain Computers Story

I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good.

Sonia Sotomayor

Good Women Men People Believe Found

We need proof in our society.

Shirley MacLaine

Society Need Proof Our

I grew up with very elegant parents; their black and white photographs and style are still a huge source of inspiration in designing my collections.

Black And White Style Parents Black

Of the Queen tributes, some of them are very funny, and some of them are really not funny at all. The terrible ones are cheesy and pantolike, more about dressing up in a Brian May wig and a Freddie Mercury moustache, and what they're missing out is the fact that the music is quite complicated and actually not easy to perform.

Funny Music Queen Easy Complicated

I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.

Life Childhood Memory Remember Early

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Chester A. Arthur

Life Business Nobody Private Life

Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.

Success Failure Good Myself Waiting

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

Sad Experience You Always Something

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