Martin Van Creveld Quotes
If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
Nathan Fillion
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
Carine Roitfeld
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
Lael Brainard
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
Imran Khan
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
Harrison Birtwistle
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
Saint Ambrose
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
Karen Gillan
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
Laetitia Casta
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If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
Naveen Jain
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
Oliver Evans
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
Maisie Williams
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
Edgar Winter
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
Edmund White
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
Flip Wilson
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
Sam Heughan
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I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
Cofer Black
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People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.
John Kruk
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The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.
James Chanos
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Today, terrorism threatens a great number of states, a great number of people - hundreds of thousands, millions of people suffer from its criminal activity. And we all face the task of joining our efforts in the fight against this common evil.
Vladimir Putin
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.
Martin Van Creveld