Adrienne Mayor Quotes
Pictures of Amazons on vase paintings always show them as beautiful, active, spirited, courageous, and brave.
Adrienne Mayor
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
Danica McKellar
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
Iris DeMent
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
Vanessa Mae
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
Daniel Alarcon
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
Ralph Adams Cram
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I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.
Ted Lange
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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
Edward Tufte
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Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'
J. F. C. Fuller
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My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.
Jay Parini
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I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
Lauren Willig
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Pictures of Amazons on vase paintings always show them as beautiful, active, spirited, courageous, and brave.
Adrienne Mayor