Donna Leon Quotes
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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I am not an enemy of Adventism.
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause?
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You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
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One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.
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Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America.
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Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will.
