Amos Elon Quotes
He should have added the old truism that in war millions of young men butcher millions of other young men who have done them no harm and whom they have never met—all on behalf of a few old men who know one another only too well.
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Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.
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Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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We must understand the politics of our community and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what part politics play in our lives. And until we become politically mature we will always be mislead, lead astray, or deceived or maneuvered into supporting someone politically who doesn’t have the good of our community at heart.
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Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
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Implicit in the Hollywood formula of mom-by-option and dad-by-default is mom never at fault...to a fault.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I don't go out that much - usually it's just dinner.
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I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.
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When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.
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The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.
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He should have added the old truism that in war millions of young men butcher millions of other young men who have done them no harm and whom they have never met—all on behalf of a few old men who know one another only too well.
