David Petraeus Quotes
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
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Lim Cheng Po, Anglican, Royalist, cricketer, respectable husband and father, allowed his animal reflexes out for an avenue walk on the lead.
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The eye can best distinguish the forms of objects when it is placed between the shaded and the illuminated parts.
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Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.
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If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energised. I really love what I do.
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I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.
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The uniformity and repeatability of print created the 'political arithmetic' of the seventeenth century and the 'hedonistic calculus' of the eighteenth. (p. 237)
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If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.
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See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.
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In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.
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There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.
