Anatol Rapoport Quotes
The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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Music is like the soul of the planet.
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The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.
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It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
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I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
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The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.
