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.
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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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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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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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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.
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As a cosigner of the Veterans' Bill of Rights, I'm committed to making sure that veterans' issues remain a top priority in Congress.
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I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called 'When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.' It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care.
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If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.
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No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.
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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.
