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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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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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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Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
Mandy Bujold -
There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
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There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.
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The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.
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The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.
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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.
