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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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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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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I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
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So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down.
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California, here I come, right back where I started from.
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There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.
