George F. Kennan Quotes
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.
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The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.
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One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".
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It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us-and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
