Margaret MacMillan Quotes

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

Margaret MacMillan

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We have a crisis in nuclear weapons, and again, thanks very much to the Democrats: Bill Clinton, who removed us from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty framework for nuclear disarmament, and then Barack Obama, who created a trillion-dollar budget for us to spend on a new generation of nuclear weapons and modes of delivery.

Jill Stein

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I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

Jerry Lewis

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What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says 'Never Give Up' and who truly tries to live his life to that credo - we recruited 16 people who said, 'I will never give up.' And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.

John Cena

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These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Steve Finley

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I want to study law, become a lawyer, and work in Afghanistan for human rights.

Sonita Alizadeh

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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

Loretta Young

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Many entrepreneurs embrace profit-making and charitable purposes. Companies such as shoes seller Toms and eyeglass firm Warby Parker sell products at a profit with a pledge to devote part of their earnings to the needy. The number of for-profit businesses with a built-in charitable dimension has proliferated.

Josh Hawley

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I think I'm a good Canadian, but I'm not the greatest Canadian.

Donald Stewart Cherry

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That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

Pete du Pont

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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

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We see that in the top problems in the world between haves and have-nots, generally we find that the root cause is education.

Tim Cook

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