I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.


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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
OMAR N. BRADLEY
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY
In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern stat...
OMAR N. BRADLEY
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along wi...
OMAR N. BRADLEY
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
OMAR N. BRADLEY
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
OMAR N. BRADLEY
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about pea...
OMAR N. BRADLEY
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY
I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a projec...
P. N. ELROD
Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD
Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P. N. ELROD
Death is a monster; death is horrible.
N. T. WRIGHT
I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of g...
N. T. WRIGHT
A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as...
N. T. WRIGHT
It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we...
N. T. WRIGHT
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discip...
N. T. WRIGHT
I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work,...
N. T. WRIGHT
While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'bein...
N. T. WRIGHT
Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
N. T. WRIGHT
The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in ou...
N. T. WRIGHT
Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an aft...
N. T. WRIGHT
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
N. T. WRIGHT
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is t...
N. T. WRIGHT
Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters...
N. T. WRIGHT
Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present spac...
N. T. WRIGHT
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' ...
N. T. WRIGHT
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of cour...
N. T. WRIGHT
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was gl...
N. T. WRIGHT
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want...
N. T. WRIGHT
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theoc...
N. T. WRIGHT
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is ...
N. T. WRIGHT
The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is h...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written t...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservat...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER