Victor Davis Hanson Quotes
Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
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We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
