Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
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Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.
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'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
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Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
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Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
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The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
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Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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The increase of visual stress among the Greeks alienated them from the primitive art that the electronic age now reinvents after interiorizing the 'unified field' of electric all-at-onceness. (p. 72)
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...self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
