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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.John F. Kennedy
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It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.Maya Lin
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The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.Sojourner Truth
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We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.Charles Spurgeon
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. - Alice Walker
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.Alice Walker
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.Bill Vaughan
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When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names and stuff.Pete Holmes
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First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. - George Burns
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.George Burns
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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.Enrico Fermi
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However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love.Charles Spurgeon
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Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I always make sure I have a notebook with me.Kate DiCamillo
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Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.Charles Eastman
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If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.J. Robert Oppenheimer
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It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes. - Greg Gutfeld
It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.Greg Gutfeld
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Twitter could save a lot of money by writing its executives' names on their doors with pencil instead of fancy placards. Like an episode of 'Suits,' Twitter execs come, go, change jobs and disappear under black clouds every few minutes. Office administration costs must be astronomical!Milo Yiannopoulos
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I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.Ennio Morricone
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Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.Sushma Swaraj
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If you look at the soap bubbles in the sink when you're doing dishes, you'll see the incredible diversity of shapes in there. There are cubes in there; there are decahedrons and tetrahedrons; there are odd, irregular shapes without names, you know.Tom Noddy
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I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.Danny Meyer
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I don't want people to say, 'So, what do you think about that Cher?' and for them to reply, 'She's okay.' Okay is not good enough. I want them to either love me or to completely despise me - I mean, call me all the names under the sun. I love it.Cher Lloyd
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The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.Kenneth Grahame
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My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.James Brown
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I have already spoken about it many times. I have done a nose correction. But the way people have created waves around it at times I feel there is no point being bold in India. Rather than appreciating it, they will call you names.Koena Mitra
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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.Margaret Atwood
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.Ramakrishna
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You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.Vivienne Westwood
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Kevin Hitchcock, the goalkeeping coach at QPR, is an old mate, and I came to work for him on the understanding that I was first choice. If he'd said to me, 'We're also going to sign someone who's won Serie A five times and the Champions League and is one of the biggest names in South American football,' I would have thought twice before signing.Robert Green
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I got a lot of names for my next project, 'Vonald Trump.' Nah, I ain't gonna do that, but that sounds good.King Von
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.John Burroughs
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We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren't always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.Michelle Obama
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!Matthew Arnold
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My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.Jane Goodall
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Most people when they go to Vegas want to go to places on the Strip and experience the big names. Actually in Las Vegas, I find the best restaurants are off the Strip.Gail Kim
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The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.Bruce Chatwin
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If I'm cussing at you, swearing at you, calling you demeaning names, are you really thinking about that last play? Am I really helping you get better? Or am I just making myself feel good by demeaning you? I've really never understood it.Lane Kiffin
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If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.Maynard James Keenan
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Our pandering politicians compete to add names to the dependency of entitlement rolls instead of evaluating the success of these programs by how many people leave the dole and are restored to an independence. And these bulging entitlements are saddling our offspring with unsustainable generational debt.Ben Sasse
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My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.Michael Franti
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Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.Lajos Kossuth
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.Mortimer Adler
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As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'Duke of Wellington
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During trade deadline, we pretty much tell every player, look, there's lots of names, lots of everything for every player in the league. So it's best to tune it out because every team's job is to explore things and you don't like when things get out, but it's silly to kill or accentuate rumors during deadline week.Daryl Morey
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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.Derek Jarman
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.Mackenzie Astin
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.Muhammad Ali
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.Plato
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.Elbert Hubbard
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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.George Washington Carver
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'Natascha McElhone
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I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.Serena Williams
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I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.Peaches Geldof
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My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.Mickey Spillane
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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.Billy Idol
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He said true things, but called them by wrong names.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.Stjepan Hauser
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When anyone talks about lucha libre and that style of wrestling, the first person they think of is Mil Mascaras. The other man the true wrestling fan will think of is El Santo. These were the names that came to me when I was growing up.Rey Mysterio
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Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, 'Have a nice day' or even have one. To be honest, I've never heard a Jew say that. We're just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries.Gene Saks
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Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.Louis Armstrong
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I want the best names in the division. The fear brings out the best performance in myself.Callum Smith
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