Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
From the individual infantryman’s point of view there really is no such thing as too much personal firepower.
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My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.
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I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.
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I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it and feel it, how it's going to feel to win, and I see myself getting on the podium.
Mandy Bujold -
Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.
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We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.
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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.
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Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.
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The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.
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I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.
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If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view.
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From the individual infantryman’s point of view there really is no such thing as too much personal firepower.
