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This isn't a book about war, but about the strength of ideas that drive people to extreme action.


Geraldine Brooks

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EDMOND ABOUT It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the coun...
EDMOND ABOUT I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians,...
EDMOND ABOUT I fight fairly, and in good faith.
EDMOND ABOUT Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
EDMOND ABOUT Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of noth...
EDMOND ABOUT The habit of intensity is not simply being passionate about your goals, but it connotes some form of...
SUNDAY ADELAJA This case is about the vindictiveness of Officer Carson and the greed of Mr. Brooks.
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AVRIL LAVIGNE With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, ...
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MAYOR PAUL HELMKE I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferr...
MYLES HORTON When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a ...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. T...
ADAM GRANT I never saw it as a political book, ... I wanted to open up a world that people might not know anyth...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.
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TOBIAS S. GIBSON That's one issue that people haven't really recognized. This isn't about helping people upgrade tech...
JEANNINE KENNEY I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect...
AVRIL LAVIGNE I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War...
CELINE BUCKENS Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about oth...
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STEVEN SEAGAL Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
MARIE CURIE Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT This issue isn't about the [strength] of PINs?it's about the merchants and how they store this data.
BRUCE CUNDIFF No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they impro...
ROSECRANS BALDWIN I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great stor...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT This book is a great picture book of ideas for storage space in your home.
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NATALIE URQUIETA this is a book about something
C.S. LEWIS This book is a lot about the New England of today.
BURT FEINTUCH A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that...
SALLY SCHNEIDER We don't say anything about the book unless somebody asks. But if people ask, I'm certainly frank ab...
ALLAN KELIN This is an extreme action based on a case that was not even identified in their original complaint,
LYNN OLSON This is a people's war, and to win it, the people should know as much about it as they can.
ELMER DAVIS You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do som...
IAN FRAZIER In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
ANONYMOUS In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
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A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
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ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER It's an untenable choice, there's just no question about it. But this is a skirmish in a much bigger...
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength
SUNDAY ADELAJA War is about dead people.
SCOTT RITTER All of it made me think about this book I want to write. It's about greed.
JOHN DENSMORE I never worry about action, but only about inaction
WINSTON CHURCHILL I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better...
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LAURA BAILEY But this is war. We don’t have the luxury of good ideas—only picking between the bad ones.
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C. JOYBELL C. I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget...
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JEFF TAGEANT The problem when you are a strong, capable, self-confident person, is that more often than not, peop...
C. JOYBELL C. Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people h...
TROY CARTER The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of per...
MIKE LEE I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people i...
ERIN CUMMINGS My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real l...
BUSTA RHYMES I haven't read the Book of Job yet, but I'm about to.
WILLIAM KISSEL Some people I know are about as real as a book of fiction.
LARSS VINCENT MCKEVITT What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning t...
DYLAN MORAN It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any br...
MIKE DAVIDSON I don't know, he keeps very busy, but he certainly is shocked about all the stuff I've revealed abou...
BURT WARD The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, b...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Melvyn Bragg's central thesis is right and it is one the book festival demonstrates every summer: id...
CATHERINE LOCKERBIE On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship fo...
BILLY CAMPBELL The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small exten...
MARK HELPRIN I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the st...
ANA CASTILLO A number of candidates who have been talked about are extreme.
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OSHO You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER Brooks never impressed me because you were accustomed to him making the plays. This kid reminds me a...
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AHMAD BROOKS It means we can play with the big dogs. It's a big confidence boost.
AHMAD BROOKS It was real tense. We just needed someone to make a play.
AHMAD BROOKS It was frustrating. It was kind of like last week [against Duke], when I was on the sidelines. You r...
AHMAD BROOKS I had some pressure [on that play]. I threw my hand in his face. That was all I could do. They weren...
AHMAD BROOKS It was my first time playing outside linebacker, this weekend, so it's kind of hard to pick up every...
AHMAD BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 19...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Chr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If man is man a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Slowly, all through the universe, that temple o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 Only when a man tri...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 A large acquain...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Luke the Evangelist No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Chris...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 To hold your truth, to beli...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 I hear men praying eve...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Wherever soul...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie!...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apos...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: W...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Beginning a series on the person of Jesus: I read the words and ponder them, but most of all I loo...
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