Arthur David Ritchie Quotes
It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.

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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
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Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
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I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
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I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.
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When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
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The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.
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This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.
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To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
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We cannot all be masters.
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California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.
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Players sometimes need to feel important and loved by the club.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.
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mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.