Mark Steyn Quotes
If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.
Quotes to Explore
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
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Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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I will work for Bulgaria's strategic choice - Bulgaria's membership in the European Union and NATO. I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.
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Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
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I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.
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Nelson wonders why, no matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong – you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.
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The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.
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If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.
