Quote by John Keegan
Its commonly said that people whove been ill in childhood and whov

Its commonly said that people whove been ill in childhood and whove had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you dont look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, thats a help. – John Keegan

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The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion. – John Keegan

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funny
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I dont look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. – John Keegan

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Graduation
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Soldiers, when committed to a task, cant compromise. Its unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until its been done. – John Keegan

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Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of ones own culture and social organisation. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they… can never be without some element of education. – Nicholas Negroponte

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By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities. – Dan Lipinski

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The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education. – Jodi Rell

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. – Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Discretion,” Proverbial Philosophy

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Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination. – Jean Baudrillard

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I dont know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us dont want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and were not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. – Tony Campolo

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What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. – Henry George

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