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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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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Real luxury is customization.
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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 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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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. 'Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'' Businessweek (5 July 1999)
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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I'm here, I'm not queer, and I'm not going away.
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
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Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.
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Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.
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I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
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I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.
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Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
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Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
