Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.
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We're all going to die.
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Character is long-standing habit.
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Our Congress passes laws that subsidize corporations, farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia, but when they turn their attention to the poor they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on funds for Head Start.
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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
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Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
