America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.


Nelson Rockefeller

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As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
WILLIE NELSON
I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
WILLIE NELSON
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
WILLIE NELSON
Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning ...
WILLIE NELSON
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes...
WILLIE NELSON
I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.
WILLIE NELSON
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to m...
WILLIE NELSON
I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.
WILLIE NELSON
I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you...
WILLIE NELSON
You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
WILLIE NELSON
I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
WILLIE NELSON
It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
WILLIE NELSON
If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
WILLIE NELSON
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who...
WILLIE NELSON
You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to ...
WILLIE NELSON
Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met...
WILLIE NELSON
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb an...
WILLIE NELSON
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybod...
WILLIE NELSON
England expects that every man will do his duty.
HORATIO NELSON
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbi...
TED NELSON
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowe...
TED NELSON
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions -...
TED NELSON
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut any...
TED NELSON
Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
TED NELSON
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking...
TED NELSON
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I...
TED NELSON
But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted i...
TED NELSON
I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am muc...
TED NELSON
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for th...
TED NELSON
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ide...
TED NELSON
I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
TED NELSON
So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the stru...
TED NELSON
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
TED NELSON
Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independ...
NELSON MANDELA
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure border...
NELSON MANDELA
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organizati...
NELSON MANDELA
I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
NELSON MANDELA
I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
NELSON MANDELA
I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will...
NELSON MANDELA
The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had un...
NELSON MANDELA
I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed the...
NELSON MANDELA
I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
NELSON MANDELA
At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the infl...
NELSON MANDELA
The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhun...
NELSON MANDELA