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Greg Grandin Quotes

America is exceptional, it is asserted, because, with the exception of the abolition of slavery, it has been able to extend the promise of liberal reform mostly peacefully, through its democratic institutions.

Greg Grandin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1962

Topics

Slavery America Through Liberal Been

Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.

John Burnside

Roads Electricity Lost Development

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

John Oliver

Stand Doing You Want Entertain

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Roger Moore

Death Nothing Glamorous About

Rotavirus does not cause all diarrhea, but it causes a lot of it. Instead of a single vaccine dose, however, harried nurses may have to give several, as diarrhoea makes it difficult for a child to retain anything.

Rose George

Child Difficult Single Anything May

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

Friend Death Evil Lose Him Bitter

Every Crohn's and colitis patient is different, and they all respond to different things. That's the craziest thing about it.

Mike McCready

Patient Respond Things Different

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

Lisa See

You Look Want Never See Maps

Once you have been hot and cold, you get real appreciative when you got a place to go every day with decent material, a paycheck to come in, and nice people to work with.

Dinah Manoff

Work Day People Cold You Every Day

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

Dick Van Dyke

Today You Nobody

Everything comes out of what works for me.

Donna Karan

Me Everything Out Works

The climate has always changed - after all, we've had numerous ice ages without human influence - but human activity has undoubtedly exacerbated Earth's natural trends beyond its capacity to adjust.

Christine Todd Whitman

Influence Ice Earth Beyond Trends

When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I'll ask, 'Did I do OK?' Because I feel like it's like my soul squeezing out of my vocal chords. I don't sit there and think about 'I'm gonna do this next...' I just sing. I sing from my heart, and my heart's got a little lonesome in it.

Ashley Monroe

Heart Time Soul Think Feel My Soul