Nguyen Viet Thang Quotes
People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
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I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
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We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.
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If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
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We've always been proud of what we've done.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
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I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.
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I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
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Due to the efficient supervision of the Secretary of War the Army of the United States has been organized with a small body of Regulars and a moderate National Guard and Reserve. The defense test of September 12 demonstrated the efficiency of the operating plans. These methods and operations are well worthy of congressional support.
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Let them do what I have done.
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I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.
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What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.
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I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
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Message on the Golden Record of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched into space 5 September 1977, as quoted at 'Howdy, Strangers' at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory News (19 August 2002)
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Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
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People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.
