"Know something about something. Don’t just present your……" — Richard Holbrooke
"Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around."
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27 Quotes by Richard Holbrooke
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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the…
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A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of…
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Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other…
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws…
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect,…
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There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and…
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I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I…
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Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States…
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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a…
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The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience…
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The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the…
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It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive…
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More Amass Quotes
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Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of…
— William J. Clinton
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack…
— Sufyan al-Thawri
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Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about…
— Cillian Murphy
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True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.
— Joy Harjo
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Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.
— StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski
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The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
— Al Gore
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I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to…
— Socrates
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But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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You mark my words: Whenever a cult attacks Christianity, the first place they're going to go is they're going to…
— Paul Washer
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I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play…
— Noel Gallagher
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