"In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated."

-- George Washington

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“I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.”
“But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing”

Source : Éric Rohmer (1980). “Six moral tales”, Viking Books
“It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.”
“For me, I've been really, really lucky because I have been able to play a lot of different parts.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.”
“We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”
“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

Source : John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns
“There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.”

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