Antony Beevor Quotes
Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man
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'Shark Tank' has been a sincere joy. As our traditional venture-backed companies get bigger, the investing side tends to get more political and complicated. 'Shark Tank' takes me back to my early days working with ambitious founders in their earliest and scrappiest days. The show reminds me of what I deeply love about this business.
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Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
