Carroll Quigley Quotes
It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
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The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.
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I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
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Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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No one at all understands why it is possible for the plant cell that bears within its substance one of these green chlorophyll bodies to combine certain inorganic elements into nutritious foods, a feat that no human chemist can perform.
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
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I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.
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Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
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It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.
