Carroll Quigley Quotes
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.
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I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.
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In England women are still occasionally used instead of horses for hauling canal boats, because the labour required to produce horses and machines is an accurately known quantity, while that required to maintain the women of the surplus population is below all calculation.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men.
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Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
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Whatever form it takes, the possession of the imaginative gift transforms the problem of accounting for human conduct. For now it is not a question of how given needs are satisfied. Deliberative conduct, choice, the prime economic act, depend for their possibility, when they go beyond pure instinctive animal response to stimulus, upon the conceptual power of the human mind. Choice is necessarily amongst thoughts, amongst things imagined.
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In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions
