Top 32 Scott Anderson Quotes
#1. The one possibility that Sanders tended to discount entirely was a landing at Gallipoli's southern tip, simply because the most basic rules of military logic - even mere common sense - argued against it.
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#2. And for all concerned there was a deepening anger that under the cloak of defending the sacred tenet of "free trade," the United States continued to finance and do business with both sides in the conflict, growing ever richer while Europe bled.
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#3. Initial euphoria would give way to shock, shock to horror, and then, as the killing dragged on with no end in sight, horror to a kind of benumbed despair.
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#4. On top of this was the official indigenous Egyptian government that, though it was quite toothless, various British officials periodically felt the need to pretend to consult in order to maintain the appearance that the wishes of the actual inhabitants of Egypt somehow mattered.
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#5. What Lawrence had discovered on the battlefield was that while moments of heroism might certainly occur, the cumulative experience of war, its day-in, day-out brutalization, was utterly antithetical to the notion of leading a heroic life.
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#6. The British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread its enlightenment - whether through commerce, the Bible, the gun, or some combination of all three - to the world's less fortunate cultures and races.
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#7. If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. ... Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.
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#8. But defeating one's enemies is only half the game; for a war to be truly justifiable one has to materially gain.
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#10. Was a master of the PowerPoint presentation nearly a century before it existed.
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#11. [A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades
no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was that Jews somewhere were going to suffer.
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#12. Arab independence was only guaranteed in those lands that the Arabs freed themselves.
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#13. By the end of that first day, the advance landing forces at Gallipoli had already suffered nearly four thousand casualties, or considerably more than the total number of men Lawrence had projected would be needed to secure Alexandretta.
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#14. Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick.
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#15. My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.
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#16. History is often the tale of small moments - chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence - that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly's wings that triggers a hurricane.
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#17. You know, men do nearly all die laughing, because they know death is very terrible, and a thing to be forgotten till after it has come. T. E. LAWRENCE, IN A LETTER TO HIS MOTHER, 1916
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#18. Had worked so hard to bring about, that Lawrence was suddenly
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#19. LATE ONE NIGHT in early October 1913, William Yale lay in his tent in the mountains of Anatolia, struck by a sense of wonder at how quickly a life could change. Just three weeks earlier he had been living in
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#20. So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.
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#21. Germany. If Churchill imagined, however, that a living Lawrence might have played a signal role in meeting that danger, he was surely mistaken. As Lawrence himself had been trying to tell the world for many years, the
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#22. Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
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#23. British generals often gave away in stupidity what they had gained in ignorance.
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#24. Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.
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#25. Victory carries a moral burden the vanquished never know, and as an architect of momentous events, Lawrence would be uniquely haunted by what he saw and did during the Great Loot.
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#26. What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor anything, it is uncertainty. Expect bond and stock market volatility to increase from here until the inflation outlook solidifies.
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#27. Nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of the
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#28. Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?
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#29. I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
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#30. His son was a weak and mentally unstable young man with sadistic inclinations - which went a long way toward explaining his current flirtation with the British -
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#31. As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they're just really good at playing stupid, but I don't think so.
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#32. Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.
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