Bernard Bailyn Quotes
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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When I get married it will be for keeps.
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Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts.
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For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".
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The transmissibility of avian viruses may increase as the viruses adapt to humans.
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Pride is a fool's fortress.
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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I don't know where Blair got his numbers, but the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) where I talked this morning had a sell-out audience and they turned away as many people as were in the audience who wanted to hear about Internet commerce, ... That doesn't sound like an apathetic audience.
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Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President and did not run turned out to be treated by history as much more minor figures politically.
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One doesn’t question a miracle.
