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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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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O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
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Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.
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I do movies I would go to see.
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As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.
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People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It is something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves.
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Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
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The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
