Charles C. Mann Quotes
Cash-strapped cities in nations from Argentina to Albania have begun to turn over their municipal water systems to Big Water, often under lease arrangements that can continue in force for decades.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'
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Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
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He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward to spending six months.
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The only actors who can really do justice to their parts are the ones who don't know what they are.
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The ideal time period to get an investment is when you've already proved your concept and know what you're doing, and it's about adding water to the seeds.
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My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.
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The most interesting stuff happens when an authoritarian government removes itself a little and gives this margin of freedom. And then art is grabbed with both hands.
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Cash-strapped cities in nations from Argentina to Albania have begun to turn over their municipal water systems to Big Water, often under lease arrangements that can continue in force for decades.
