Virginia Foxx Quotes
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.
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Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.
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There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.
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I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
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If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
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Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring.
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In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.
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Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.
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In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
