Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.
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Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
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The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.
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I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
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It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.
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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
