J. M. Roberts

J. M. Roberts
John Morris "J. M." Roberts CBEwas a British historian, with significant published works. From 1979 to 1985 he was vice chancellor of the University of Southampton, and from 1985 to 1994, Warden of Merton College, Oxford. He was also well known as the author and presenter of the BBC TV series The Triumph of the West...
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What WE can do together Far exceeds what we can do alone.
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We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.
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We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.
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It was kind of what you would expect in a small town back then. Many of us had played together since Little League.
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This is a combination that we believe would restore the Disney brand, ... There is no doubt that these two companies can achieve things together that they would not be able to do alone.
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There was a place for males and for females, but what would happen is that, if a single mother had two little girls and a 6-year-old boy and found herself homeless, the little boy could wind up by himself, in a cot next to a drug addict while the females in his family were somewhere else. I just couldn't imagine this. I mean, in a time of crisis, a family should be held together at all costs and here it was that it was the system that was forcing it apart.
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They got together and said they were going to do it for her. She was our inspiration, that's for sure.
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Helping to find jobs, counseling, whatever we can offer, because there's all different kinds of people here who want to give of their services or their homes, who may or may not have already given money or of their time, or clothing or whatever. So, it's really just to try to bring as many people together as we can.
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They do a great job of getting into passing lanes. They do a very good job of forcing you to do things that you don't want to do. They do a great job on the glass.
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I wasn't showing him a house, I was showing him a place to leave me.
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It's the combination of songs and styles the band uses that makes them so unique. They have diversity and a witty flare about them that audiences relate to.
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Not knowing is the hardest part. Now what do we do? We keep saying our prayers.
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All of us are sympathetic to the class-size amendment. But each university has classroom needs, too.
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I think we were fortunate to get the win tonight.