Alfred Thayer Mahan Quotes
“The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Naomi Klein
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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.
Forest Whitaker
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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.
Gabrielle Union
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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.
Ian Mckellen
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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.
Victor Hugo
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
Gal Gadot
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
Daisy Berkowitz
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Kate Mosse
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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.
Patricia Hewitt
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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.
Lewis Black
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The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
