Martin Van Creveld Quotes
Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
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Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.
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When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's amazing.
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Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.
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The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.
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Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
