Donald Kagan Quotes
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.
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Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new beginnings.
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Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.
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There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the U.S. economy would become less of a magnet for foreign investors. Economic growth, which in any case has recently been at unsustainable levels, would decline somewhat. History proves, however, that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.
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I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.
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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
