Gerald Abrahams Quotes
The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do.
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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
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When you look at Washington, it's really not that big. And its economy is completely dependent on those two companies. When they're doing well, the whole state does all right, but when they're down, there's nothing to fall back on.
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Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.
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What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts.
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What better way to honor to such agents of chaos as Keith Partridge and Charles Manson?
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It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
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You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
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My answer to everything is to keep shining brighter. Just keep shining as bright as you can.
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The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
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I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.
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You always invest the money you earn. That's the only way you can really speed up your fortune.
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The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
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The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.
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I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.
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I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.
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Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.
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The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do.
