David Petraeus Quotes
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Many small businesses rely on small financial institutions, like credit unions and community banks, to meet their capital requirements. Without them, these small businesses would have to close their doors.
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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.
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True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
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When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.
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Music is the space between the notes.
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When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
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Way down South they gave a jubilee Them Georgia folks they had a jamboree They’re drinking home brew from a wooden cup The folks dancing there got all shook up.
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Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
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I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.
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Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted 'prizes' for participation in fundraisers - books and other neat promo items.
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I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.
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Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. (p. 80)
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Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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People travel because it's a treat. For me, staying at home is a treat.
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If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: 'Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.'
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We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.
