Jeff Cooper Quotes
The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
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We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.
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The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.
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Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.
