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.
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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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Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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They would randomly assign patients to either ECMO or the conventional treatment until a prespecified number of deaths was observed in one of the groups. Then they would switch all the patients in the study to the more effective treatment of the two.
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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.
