Andrew Bacevich Quotes
It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.
Quotes to Explore
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
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After I helped on P4 mixing and saw how things were being done I offered to take care of Project 3, and on it went from there. Plus I'm way cheap.
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You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
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There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
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The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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The intensity with which Janis Joplin sings, you simply can't find a singer like that. It's almost scary the amount of emotion and energy and passion she puts into her performance.
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It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.
