Carroll Quigley Quotes
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
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Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
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I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.Bunch
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
