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.
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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.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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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.
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I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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She looked at me. Looked away. 'You think too much of me.'I smiled. 'Perhaps you think too little of yourself.'
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You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.
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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
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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.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.
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For me, my 50s was the decade when my tolerance for heels faded. I'm in good shape and, at 8 st. 3 lb., I'm still the same weight I was in my 30s, but as you get older, the weight of your body shifts somehow.
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For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.
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People I've never spoken to before come up to me and give me a hug.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
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The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.
