Margaret MacMillan Quotes

As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.

Margaret MacMillan

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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Robert M. Hutchins

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Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

Jeb Hensarling

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I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.

Jeff Bezos

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I'm definitely proud of myself anytime I can make Amanda Peet break out into laughter.

Steve Zissis

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When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies.

David Slade

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I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

Christopher Buckley

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I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

Alicia Keys

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It may take you months or even a few years to build up an adequate emergency savings fund. That's okay.

Suze Orman

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At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

Thomas Dolby

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Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.

Timothy West

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What captains want is players who move well in the field.

MS Dhoni

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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Leo Tolstoy

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