David Petraeus Quotes
The bottom line is that Daesh's defeat requires not just hammering them on the battlefield but, simultaneously, revived political reconciliation with Sunnis.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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If I have a day off I will play golf.
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For a city or a people to be truly free they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choice and to live their own lives.
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Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
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The bottom line is that Daesh's defeat requires not just hammering them on the battlefield but, simultaneously, revived political reconciliation with Sunnis.
