Eric Ambler Quotes
The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.
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I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.
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I've always believed consumers have a right to know what's in their food.
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Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.
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The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.
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And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?
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Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.
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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
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“Great decisions often take no more than a moment in the making.”
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Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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When a hadeeth is found to be saheeh, then that is my madhhab.
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It's easy, once the lamps are lit, to scoff at shadows.
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People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.
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Power is the goal of religion in general.
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Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they've got some pie chart or graph behind them and they're talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that we need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman's level and what everything that she is balancing in her life - that's the way to go.
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They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.
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The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.
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Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well.
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Before I point a finger at anyone, I have to point it at myself first.
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And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.
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The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.
