Alfred Thayer Mahan Quotes
“Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the .”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
Carl Bernstein
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
Francia Raisa
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters
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I crave attention and adventure.
Eddie Cibrian
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
Viggo Mortensen
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If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
Lara Stone
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
Walter Isaacson
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Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
Oscar Wilde
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This debate is coming down essentially to two visions - Mr. Harper's vision for Canada and my vision for Canada, and to a decision to be made by people disappointed by Mr. (Stephane) Dion
Jack Layton
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It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
Jack McDevitt
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Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open–hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child–like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child–like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.
Michael Jackson
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I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.
Amy Chozick
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Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.
John Dewey
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And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.
Knut Hamsun
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All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.
David Jeremiah
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“Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the .”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
