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H. R. McMaster

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SERGE BENHAYON I I I I I I t t t t t t i i i i i i s s s s s s u u u u u u n n n n n n f f f f f f o o o o o o r r ...
TODD COBURN Now we want (H&R) Block to make public the right numbers.
BRAD HENSKE It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
DAVID FYFE It is dangerous to confuse children with angels
DAVID FYFE For a firm like H&R Block, credibility is of paramount importance. If the H&R Block story becomes fo...
JAMES MCALEXANDER That's a hard shot to make. You can win a lot of games in H-O-R-S-E if you can make that shot consis...
GEORGE NESSMAN The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
ALISON BECHDEL My savior has a first name. It's J-E-S-U-S. My savior has a second name. It's C-H-R-I-S-T,
JOHN SCHWARTZ Let's first all people out there to see what's done and then they will see why I can do about that!?
DEYTH BANGER Maturity is not when we start speaking big things.It is when we start understanding the small things...
ARSHDEEP SINGH SAMRALA It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment,...
ADAM GRANT My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk abou...
GARY BURGHOFF Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support...
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN You start out with hand jobs and progress to orgies. You smoke dope and then, the big H. bigger, bet...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving, but does not make any progress.
ALFRED A. MONTAPERT It's impossible always to be with the majority in coalition government, especially when it's...
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have alw...
DAVE MATTHEWS Yes, Pete was about junior-high age and always around. He would come to practice and he was a wise g...
NICK MILASNOVICH M-O-T-H-E-R
M is for the million things she gave me,
O means only that she's growing old,
T...
HOWARD JOHNSON Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie ...
MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ Personally, I think doing taxes is a big pain in the tushy, so I have them done at Preparation H & R...
KAREN LEE Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be r...
HERMANN MAIER It's always that tricky thing with a remake, especially when it's something that's well ...
DAVID TENNANT In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, w...
NAOMI WOLF Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, w...
THOMAS SOWELL I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And ...
ADAM MICHNIK I'm a fan of FKA Twigs, The Weeknd. I love that kind of ambient R&B. I feel like it's ju...
NE-YO Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your p...
SELLAPAN RAMANATHAN It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And t...
STEVEN ADLER It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous.
CARNIE WILSON All progress means war with society.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.
ALAN ALDA Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today. Me and Little Joe will be going away. I love you both and thi...
TAMMY WYNETTE Attorney General McMaster has always firmly believed in the charges in the hog-dogging cases. The re...
MARK PLOWDEN I'm happy to say that I am in remission. That R word is something critically important to cancer...
KATHY GIUSTI I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that...
BRYSON TILLER I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me goin...
MACEO PARKER M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The h...
LORETTA SWIT I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on ...
JAKE BUSEY The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us wi...
GARY BURGHOFF I love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know peopl...
STEPHEN STILLS We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The fir...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fas...
SAMANTHA HARVEY he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I ...
CHRISTINA RICCI One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's...
H. RAP BROWN I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male pro...
CASSANDRA CLARE Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
LARRY FLYNT Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as d...
BOB AINSWORTH Love, what you DO, Respect, who DOES for you, Appreciate, who DOES for others, Salute, who DOES for ...
PRITISH PATTANAIK There will always be competition, especially in showbiz. There's always someone younger and hung...
PREITY ZINTA You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That...
MICHELLE OBAMA I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm defin...
JAMIE FOXX I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids wat...
MARLON WAYANS Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divin...
ORIGEN I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it b...
JUANES Maybe they were easy shots, and we weren't guarding him. I know he had one wide-open shot in front o...
GREG KAMPE We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are po...
DAVID BROMSTAD America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.
JOHN MCCAIN I've been working through Maurice Druon's 'Accursed Kings' series. They come highly ...
VICTORIA AVEYARD In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by id...
H. R. MCMASTER Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
H. R. MCMASTER Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitabl...
H. R. MCMASTER The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons an...
H. R. MCMASTER What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future w...
H. R. MCMASTER You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivel...
H. R. MCMASTER We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply th...
H. R. MCMASTER The key thing about force protection is... if you focus too much on force protection, and you diseng...
H. R. MCMASTER It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What perce...
H. R. MCMASTER Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
H. R. MCMASTER It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's...
H. R. MCMASTER War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted ...
H. R. MCMASTER The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New Yor...
H. R. MCMASTER Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise...
H. R. MCMASTER There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically me...
H. R. MCMASTER Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and ...
H. R. MCMASTER When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live ...
H. R. MCMASTER Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces...
H. R. MCMASTER Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding ...
H. R. MCMASTER We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground....
H. R. MCMASTER In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, '...
H. R. MCMASTER It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilitie...
H. R. MCMASTER Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital inte...
H. R. MCMASTER It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across thei...
H. R. MCMASTER What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by do...
H. R. MCMASTER It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of...
H. R. MCMASTER My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don&#...
H. R. MCMASTER He has specialized knowledge that makes him especially dangerous in the heavily wooded areas where w...
WOODY ENDERSON When the war was in progress, England and France agreed wholeheartedly with the Fourteen Points. As ...
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RICKY PONTING Don't confuse honours with achievement.
ZADIE SMITH It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is...
PADDY CHAYEFSKY We've got to stand up at some point and say, 'We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in th...
STEVE KING Approaching a police car is a very dangerous activity to engage in.
STEVEN MAGEE I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&...
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I know my limits." "No one knows their limits till they've gone beyond them.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD But I know you have courage, and I know you have will. The rest is just picking yourself up and ramm...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way...
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Prayer, he suspected as he hoist...
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You have to be careful who you let define your good.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get fo...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's ski...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then yo...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if y...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see our...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a new f...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Miles had sworn his officer's oath to the Emperor less than two weeks ago, puffed with pride at his ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous busin...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Galeni made her smile but not laugh. The lack of any sense of play between them worried Miles; you h...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Vormurtos leaned on the frame with his arms crossed, and failed to move aside.

At Miles's...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gi...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how g...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD He let his head rest against the crisp cloth of her uniform jacket a moment longer. She shifted, her...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Mon Dieu, it’s the little admiral,” she said cheerfully. “What are you doing here?” Ignoring...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The door was locked. The control had been buggered. Miles ripped it apart, shorted it out, and heave...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD How does a kidnapping grab you?” She giggled inexplicably. “Absolutely not!” “Oh, you’re g...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD We’re just good friends,” caroled Miles, and laughed hysterically. He lunged for the comconsole�...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You make yourself sound like a Venn diagram. ‘The set of all sets which are members of themselves�...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Some attitudes couldn't be changed, they just had to be outlived
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD . . . people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me,...
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