Dues Quotes - Page 31

• Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  North of Boston (1914) "Black Cottage"

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• Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

  Elton Gallegly

  Summer, Country, Jobs

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• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Children, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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• I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

  Leif Garrett

  Going Out, Clubs, Problem

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• It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Imagination, Bitterness, Would Be

  "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, 2003.

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• A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

  Boy George

  Years, Two, Lasts

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• Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

  George III

  Country, Mother, Mean

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• The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Birthday, Science, Age

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• You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.

  Robert Griffin III

  Determination, Dad, School

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• So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

  Herbie Hancock

  Legacy, Influence, Miles

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• We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Climate, Assassins

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• I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Hands, Problem, Economy

  "A Conversation with Friedrich A. Von Hayek: Science and Socialism". Talk at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., 1979.

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• If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Movement

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• Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

  Keith Henson

  Suicide, Growth, Arabia

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• When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mean, People, Realizing

  "Khaled Hosseini: The Threads That Connect Us" by Khaled Hosseini, www.shelf-awareness.com.

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• That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

  Aldous Huxley

  Blessed, Sleep, Blessing

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

  William Ralph Inge

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

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• Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

  Joshua Jackson

  Ideas, West Coast, Strikes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

  William James

  Beer, Alcohol, Criticism

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.387, Courier Corporation

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• Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

  Herman Kahn

  Mistake, Simple, Perspective

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.208, Lexington Books

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• If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Believe, Things That Are Hard, Reflecting

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• The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Average, Return, Timing

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• Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'

  Mindy Kaling

  Boss, Hey, Four

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• Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Leadership, Years, Turkeys

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• I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Issues, People

  "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence". Book by John D. Marks and Victor Marchetti, 1974.

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