Amity Shlaes Quotes
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.
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And the central assertion of his philosophy is that this inner realm is the 'spiritual world' and that once man has learned to enter this realm, he realizes that it is not a mere imaginative reflection of the external world, but a world that possesses its own independent reality.
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time.
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Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
