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Daniel Webster Quotes

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 18, 1782 - October 24, 1852

Topics

People Liberty Been Taught Sentinel

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Knowledge Decision Society Principal

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Michael Ignatieff

Life Business Politics Ugly People

Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of regulations, and even before language he becomes conscious of certain obligations.

Child Parents Language Playing Even

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

Johnnie Cochran

Change Children Will Judges Laws

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

God Self Creation True True Self

I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.

Challenge Team Game Enjoy More Out

This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style for 'Teen Witch.' I'm dead serious. She was super involved, and is super creative, so I wore a lot of my actual clothes in the movie. Truly, Louise was my mom's vision. She really created an iconic character.

Character Vision Style Creative Teen

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Easy Procrastination Hard Things Hard

Trucking-company terminals are places where paperwork gets filled out, driving orders are given, and partners are assigned. They can often be social hubs for drivers, breaking up the monotony and solitude they face on the road.

Solitude Road Face Driving Places

I'm not sure I approve of theatre as a university course. I think theatre's something you do. I mean, literature is a subject; theatre is practical.

Miriam Margolyes

Theatre Think Literature You Mean

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

Best Day People Me Believe Think

You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.

Time Job Sleep Start You Transition

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