Eric Shinseki Quotes
No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
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Every film that comes out that incorporates CGI or performance capture is a little bit ahead of the last film that came out. You're on the cutting edge for a certain amount of time, and then the new technology comes out.
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It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough.
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A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?
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We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.
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It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop.
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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
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I like to know what's in my food and in my drinks. It's really important for me.
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Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values.
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I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.
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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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From what we cannot hold the stars are made.
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There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.
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I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."
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Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
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Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
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Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.
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No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.
