Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson
British journalist, author, and historian who edited the New Statesman and penned over forty works, including the 1959 novel, Left of Centre, and the 1997 non-fiction work, A History of the American People. He also wrote four works on art and architecture and two memoirs.
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth2 November 1928
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We have to have a plan to try and counter that. We know that if we don't come and play really hard and with a lot of intensity that we'll get embarrassed. And we don't like to get embarrassed.
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Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.
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It was like a tribal ritual for surfers to go to these dances to see Dick and the other bands.
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That's one of the neat things about the academy. They're all guaranteed a job when they graduate.
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In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.
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For the same reason Ascend wanted Stratus' technology, Lucent is also interested.
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Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts.
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I got my first delivery this week since the hurricane.
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Lad Of The Manor is probably the best weight-for-age horse in Australia at the moment.
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Essentially, what they argued is that Cisco has grown through acquisitions, and people are valuing it at a very high price because of its growth.
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In my mind, Adam hasn't proven anything. He still has a lot to prove to me.
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Absolutely. You can't be 33-0 without good coaching, good kids. I thought fundamentally they did some things very well, and they got all the loose balls we didn't get. ... Today, the better team won, I have no problem with that.
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They're very incongruous, these great, big, sometimes 30-foot trees, in the middle of an otherwise barren landscape.
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What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.