Douglas Haig Quotes
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
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I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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Real luxury is customization.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
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The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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I like to play by my own rules.
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From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
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Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
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The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
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I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.
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We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.
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History is information. Memory is part of your identity.
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I know people socially who live in countries where the wealth gap is more extreme than it is in America, and they live with full-time security. They live with the threat of getting kidnapped, or they live with the threat of people invading their homes.
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Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
