Victor Davis Hanson Quotes
War itself is not a mere science but a more fickle sort of thing, often subject to fate or chance, being an entirely human enterprise...

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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
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Michael's great. He's everything you'd want Michael Keaton to be.
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War itself is not a mere science but a more fickle sort of thing, often subject to fate or chance, being an entirely human enterprise...