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...
Victor Davis Hanson
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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.
Ram Shriram
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
Larry Wilmore
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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.
Hanya Yanagihara
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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.
Salman Rushdie
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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.
Magnus Carlsen
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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.
Utada Hikaru
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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.
Talulah Riley
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I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
Laura Mvula
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
Gabrielle Reece
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
Tariq Anwar
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It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.
David Douglass
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Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke.
John Donne
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The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials. When he is disappointed in love, he does not commit suicide. When loved ones die, he doesn’t despair; when he loses a coveted contest, he doesn’t falter; when war and destruction dissipate his future, he doesn’t sink into a depression. He lives above his world and never loses sight of the goal of his salvation.
Harold B. Lee
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I'm not putting them on,” said old Archie in indignation. “I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.
Joanne Rowling
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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...
Victor Davis Hanson