Alistair Horne Quotes
Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.

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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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O amazement of things-even the least particle!
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
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This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.
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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.