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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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
Francis Bacon -
If we meet our great responsibility, I believe we can not only deter aggression and create an ever more secure and widening world of security - but we can also shape, step by step, a future of liberty and opportunity across the world.
Al Gore -
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
Thich Nhat Hanh -
Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.
Sherman Alexie -
If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.
Terence McKenna -
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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