Stephen Ambrose Quotes
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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The truth sustains me.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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We need to tackle energy poverty.
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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
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Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful.
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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
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As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
