Andrew Delbanco Quotes
The rebellion was over, the Union restored, and after more than two centuries there was no more slavery from which to run. The vast work of repairing its human devastation had barely begun.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
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With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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You need a core inside you-a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.
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Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then - How old is Spring, Miranda?
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Nothing had happened because nothing had changed. Yet the General was rubbish in the end.
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If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
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In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
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I don't ever think of myself as coming from a particular class because my father was working class but made his living as a newspaper foreign correspondent - someone of no fixed abode, as he used to say - who was as comfortable dining with the Mountbattens in India as he was having a pint with the boys. He was very gregarious.
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The rebellion was over, the Union restored, and after more than two centuries there was no more slavery from which to run. The vast work of repairing its human devastation had barely begun.
