Evan Osnos Quotes
I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
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I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.
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History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
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When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
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You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
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Outside, the main doors behind him, he was hit full in the chest by autumn. The doggy wind leapt about him and nipped; leaves skirred along the pavement, the scrape of the ferrules of sticks; melancholy, that tetrasyllable, sat on a plinth in the middle of the square. English autumn, and the whistling tiny souls of the dead round the war memorial.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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I will improve the economy. At least, I think I can.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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Our hands are hot and raw with the stones we have laid,We have built a tower of stone high into the sky,We have built a city of towers.
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Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.
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I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.
