Stephen Ambrose Quotes
When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
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I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
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For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot growing up.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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What happened at the prison, it is now clear, was not the result of random acts by 'a few bad apples,' it was the natural consequence of the Bush Administration policy that has dismantled those wise constraints and has made war on America's checks and balances.
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It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
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If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.
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In the future, Chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause of ailments.
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When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
