Paul Fussell Quotes
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While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?
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I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.
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That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
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As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
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Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.
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You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll
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Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
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When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.
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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.
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Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.
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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
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The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
