Mark Kurlansky Quotes
Dominicans, Nicaraguans, and even the already highly skilled Cubans greatly improved their baseball skills when occupied by U.S. troops. The only acceptable resistance to a hated American presence was to try to beat them in baseball games.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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I stand behind everything I've done.
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What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
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The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
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The American media is delivering nothing but fakeness.
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The World Cup focus is football. Team U.S.A. is more than football.
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Dominicans, Nicaraguans, and even the already highly skilled Cubans greatly improved their baseball skills when occupied by U.S. troops. The only acceptable resistance to a hated American presence was to try to beat them in baseball games.
