Edmund H. North famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.
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I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
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It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
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I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
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I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.
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Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.
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I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.
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