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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The whole world depends on America ultimately, particularly Britain. And also, I love America - a marvelous country. But in a sense I don't worry about America because I think America has such huge strengths - particularly its freedom of thought and expression - that it's going to survive as a top nation for the foreseeable future.
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Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.
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It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections
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Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.
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I'm not going to throw (Owens) out of practice because he's accused of something. Lamar is helping out. This is somewhat of a getaway for him. He can come out here and get away from things for a while.
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I'm excited the team has achieved one of their goals, to have a chance to go to a bowl game. I'm excited to be going to San Diego. I was lucky enough when I coached in Hawaii to play there in the Holiday Bowl. It's a great city.
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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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It's definitely affected the gulf grouper supply, because it limited fishermen from going out to fish,
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It was amazing. That was my first finals and it was at state. To take first felt great.
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A ruling like this will cause prejudice in people who have never been prejudiced before.
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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.
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We got permission from the two churches because this their land. Then we went to the historical society and the city council to get permission.
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We're going to turn up the intensity on him a bit and see how he handles it.
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As I have said before, they have 65 Parade All-Americans and we have 65 men who have marched in a parade.