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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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
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Just because your aren't perfect, doesn't mean you aren't beautiful.
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All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
