Ardant du Picq Quotes
The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.Ardant du Picq
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz -
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
Eddie Slovik -
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
Edgar Wright
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I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
Dale Murphy -
I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
Olivia Wilde -
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
Joanne Rowling -
The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.
Ted Yoho -
There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
Barbara Kruger -
I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
Laura Anne Gilman
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The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, 'My country, right or wrong.' In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
Carl Schurz -
She looked at me. Looked away. 'You think too much of me.'I smiled. 'Perhaps you think too little of yourself.'
Patrick Rothfuss -
You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.
Eminem -
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
Alexander Cockburn -
We don't think there is any money to be made in payments anymore. The entire business model of extracting a toll or having time delays around the movement of value is going away completely.
Jeremy Allaire -
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot
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The beggarly last doit.
William Cowper -
It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.
Bryan Clay -
Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.
Ted Dekker -
Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
Eleanor Clift -
I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
Michael Caine -
The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.
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