Michael Baumgartner Quotes
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
Michael Baumgartner
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
Aaron Neville
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God does arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
Natalie Massenet
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
Walter Lang
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
L.A. Weatherly
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
Ulrich Beck
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I can afford to get Tesco's finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.
Taron Egerton
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Haut doch die Polen, daß sie am Leben verzagen; ich habe alles Mitgefühl für ihre Lage, aber wir können, wenn wir bestehn wollen, nichts andres tun, als sie ausrotten; der Wolf kann auch nicht dafür, daß er von Gott geschaffen ist, wie er ist, und man schießt ihn doch dafür totd, wenn man kann.
Otto von Bismarck
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I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.
Evelyn Anthony
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If something just plain didn’t make sense to Alvin, he didn’t believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.
Orson Scott Card
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Most of my stuff was sort of of-the-time. 'The Crazies' was, basically, we were angry about Vietnam, and it had a reason for being.
George A. Romero
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The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.
Dave Anderson
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In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.
Jerry Yang
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A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
Michael Baumgartner
