Antony Beevor Quotes
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.
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I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
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Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.
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I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
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We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.
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Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
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And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.
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My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.
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I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
