Adrian Goldsworthy Quotes
Napoleon was later to comment that it was better to have one bad commander than two good ones with shared authority.
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.'
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.
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I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
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We can't have someone in the Oval Office who doesn't understand the meaning of the word 'confidential' or 'classified'.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.
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God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
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Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.
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I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
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There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.
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I have no affectation when I speak.
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.
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One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.
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Napoleon was later to comment that it was better to have one bad commander than two good ones with shared authority.
