Gabriel Kolko Quotes
Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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I think, because of the lack of guaranteed contracts in the league, there's hesitancy to speaking your minds at times. But I feel like there could be a movement beginning where guys are feeling a little more comfortable talking about things that are important to them.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.
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I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
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One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
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The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, 'My country, right or wrong.' In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
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A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.
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Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.
