Pat Buchanan Quotes
Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
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Another friend, a child psychologist from the college, once commented that Rachel at age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.
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In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.
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Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now.
