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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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Hugo and I sat together in the chapel and didn’t say a word to each other. We’d already said them all, in better times and in better places.
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The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
