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Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.


Eric Alterman


#difficulty #endemic #events #foreign #given

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Sidney Altman


#events #institute #intention #led #massachusetts

If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.


Clive Anderson


#build #cut #devastation #down #earth

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.


Kevin J. Anderson


#back #become #books #could #death

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.


Maya Angelou


#become #cannot #cry #demonstrating #die

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.


Jean Anouilh


#forty #half #nearly #past #seventy

In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn't fit and the shoes didn't fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn't prevent me from working.


Devon Aoki


#big #big challenge #challenge #clothes #doing

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.


Jean-Michel Basquiat


#about #became #charlie #famous #feeling

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.


Henry Walter Bates


#beauties #best #both #companion #country

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.


Nina Bawden


#bars #behind #companies #corporations #duty






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