Du Picq Quotes

#1. If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

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#2. Many breeders, breed clubs and apparently the AKC believe that the less you talk about a problem, the more likely it is to go away.

George A. Padgett

#3. I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.

Michael Helm

#4. I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

John Foster

#5. He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

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#6. Your heart is the compass, Your soul is the journey...

Andulairah

#7. I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

Jennifer Tilly

#8. If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

John Gould

#9. The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

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#10. Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

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#11. I'm in show business ... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

Chris Rock

#12. My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

Alicia Keys

#13. those with no eyes to read readily are doomed

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#14. The attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

Margaret Deland

#15. The fact is: America's obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste. The average burger and milkshake meal is so overloaded with fat, salt and sugar that it has numbed our taste buds to virtually anything else.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#16. HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.

Alice Walker

#17. A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

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#18. A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

Stanley Kunitz

#19. This man holds my hand as tightly as he holds my heart ... I hope he doesn't ever let go.

Megan Keith

#20. The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

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