Paul Fussell Quotes
To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.
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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
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I was assigned boy at birth but I have always known I was a girl.
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Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system.
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The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.
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To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.
