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Quote by George Washington
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon r

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. – George Washington

Other quotes by George Washington

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. – George Washington

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Presidents Day
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George Washington
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. – George Washington

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Presidents Day
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George Washington
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. – George Washington

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Success
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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. – Denis Waitley

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Experience

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. Im not going to deny myself that. I think Id be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do. – Mike Myers

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Experience

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. – Francis Ford Coppola

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Experience

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Experience

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In a way, this diversity is very exciting, but one has at some point to ask: are these real beginnings, or so many false starts? – Juliet Mitchell

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Diversity

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. – Arthur Baer

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legal

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. – Edward Witten

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Experience

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life