Major Owens Quotes
It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.
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While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
