H. R. McMaster Quotes
We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
H. R. McMaster
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
Yuna
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
H. R. McMaster
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
Carl Hagelin
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
Fletcher Knebel
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
Vin Diesel
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
Ian Hacking
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Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
Rahul Dravid
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
Pat Metheny
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
Imelda May
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Progress in meditation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.
Patanjali
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The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.
John Burns
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Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
William Ellery Channing
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
Salma Hayek
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
H. R. McMaster
