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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It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.
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'Justice League' takes place in the past, and Aquaman has a lot more to prove. He's just starting out. The perception is already beginning, and all these super humans are just showing up, and here's Aquaman. The perception is, 'What's next? Now we've got a guy talking to fish. What can be next?'
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To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.
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Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
