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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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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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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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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From ancient drains and sewers of the language (maritime inns and brothels…), from scrawls in the catacombs…whoremasters’ chapbooks…the vocabulary of tavern brawls
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I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.
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Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
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So we have to make sure that we always have top-class players. And to always have top-class players, we need top-class expertise all the way from top to bottom. We need to start with the five-year-olds, keep going with the ten-year-olds and invest in quality at an early age.
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Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey.
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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
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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.
