28 Quotes by David Drake

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    History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

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    The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.

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    The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.

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    We have made a firm decision to join Community Speed Watch which we hope will help to reduce the speed of traffic driving down that road.

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    We didn't realize what we were giving up. We thought we were going to a better opportunity, but we didn't realize how good we had it.

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    Dylan's is the kind of model we envisioned, and in the same way we see this book bringing out the distinct voice of Eric Clapton. He will be intensely involved in the book writing process.

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