Alfred Thayer Mahan Quotes
“The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.”
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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I'll tell ya, in New York City, where I've lived far too long, 'fuck' isn't even a word, it's a comma.
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Iran is celebrating the nuclear deal. The Iranians are going crazy. They're drinking non-alcoholic champagne and thinking about dancing. That's how excited they are.
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
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I was told I wasn't good enough, but I just chose not to listen.
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Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
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I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to be as happy as possible. That's how I feel.
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“The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.”
