Alexander Haig Quotes
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
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First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?
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In the vacant places We will build with new bricks
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War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.
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I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.
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N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted.
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Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb
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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
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Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement.
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Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided. Thus the whole universe together participates in the divine goodness more perfectly and represents it better than any single creature.
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I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
