David Brion Davis famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that,
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There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
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What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ***** back?
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If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!
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It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
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I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.
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Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
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I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.
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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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