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Rick Atkinson Quotes

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 16, 1952

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World American Army Powerful Earth

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

Work Hard Work Sometimes Hard Pay

It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.

Opportunity Great Thought Hard Open

Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul - each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays that date back to antiquity.

Sea Fashion Back Own Barcelona Date

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

Beauty Stars Space Night Wonder Up

I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of the police officers and fire-fighting apparatus you'd like to have.

Jeff Fortenberry

Money Police City Learn Enough You

I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.

Follow Just Interested Subjects

Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

Good Care You Fall Place Skin

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

Spring People Democracy Action Early

All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.

Nature Best People Mind You Know

Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all.

People Me Thought Vote Some People

We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.

Time Judge Trouble Performing Our

I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.

William Golding

Life Love People Common Sense Why

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