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Stephen Ambrose quote: "Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of."

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

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The sages have a hundred maps to give. That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree. They rattle reason out through many a sieve. That stores the sand but lets the gold go free. And all these things are less than dust to me. Because my name is Lazarus and I live. Gilbert K. Chesterton
David Eddings quote: "Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan."
Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan. David Eddings
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace. Between myself and the powers of darkness! Madeleine L'Engle
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. John Steinbeck
You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat. Carl Rogers
Jim Morrison quote: "This is the strangest life I have ever known."
This is the strangest life I have ever known. Jim Morrison
I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done. Timothy Thomas Fortune
The thorns which I have reap'd are of the treeI planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. George Byron
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Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. Jared Diamond
Frank Herbert quote: "Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode!"
Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode! Frank Herbert
Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right? But sometimes, you got to clip the rose. You got to cut the rose back, so something sweeter smelling and stronger, and even more beautiful, will grow in its place Billy Crystal
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. Jerzy Kosinski
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. Irvine Welsh
Charles Bronson quote: "I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand."
I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand. Charles Bronson
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No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. Florida Scott-Maxwell