"The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace."

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Source : Millard Fillmore (1856). “Biography of M. F.”, p.165

Millard Fillmore

#War Quotes #Independent Quotes #Presidential Quotes

“Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.”
“I was a terrible employee. I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had, luckily, in a good way, or else I'd be stuck. I would always joke around with everybody, and no one enjoyed my humor.”
“We change people, but oftentimes we get so focused on the negative people and their influence on us, we forget how powerful we are as positive people to influence others.”
“From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody Ive ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.”
“It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.”
“It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.”
“All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.”

Source : Charles Brockden Brown (1987). “Somnambulism and other stories”, Peter Lang Publishing
“Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.”

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