Leon Max Quotes
I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I love cycling.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.
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Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.
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To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
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I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
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I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.
