Carroll Quigley Quotes
A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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I like to impress myself when I dress.
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I love twins stories.
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I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
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Women will risk their lives to protect children, but rarely risk their lives to protect an adult man.
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Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
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I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
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Turning 90 is not for sissies.
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Everyone deserves the opportunity to fight for the part they want.
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
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I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
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All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.
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A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
