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For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few. Charles Caleb Colton
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
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Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
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Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? Charles Dickens
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I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
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There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? Charles Stross
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I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
civil-war tasks lasts
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. Abraham Lincoln
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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
civil-war liberty world
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
civil-war events confession
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
civil-war kind mercy
My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good. Robert E. Lee
civil-war christ poor
I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.
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When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real. Matt Reeves
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Working in the Major government, we all saw, pretty close at hand - perhaps closer than a junior minister - the problems that the party was facing, ... Those who learned the lessons, and those who didn't. I did. I still for the life of me can't work out why Blair and Brown didn't. The euro would be like an ERM that we couldn't even leave. George Osborne
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The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. Robert Fisk
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The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country. Kenneth Clarke
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Tony Blair is not just the worst prime minister we've ever had, but by far the worst prime minister we've ever had. It makes my blood boil to think of the British soldiers who've died for that little liar. George MacDonald Fraser
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Whereas last year there was a clear popular preference for Mr Brown over Mr Blair as Prime Minister, that has now all but vanished. Anthony King
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To bring my image back up in that light seemed to sort of take me back into that whole frame of time where I was the Blair Witch guy. I was the kid that they didn't know whether or not he was acting. Michael Williams
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To bring about change in this situation, it needs to be driven. Mr. Trimble is a learner-driver, and cannot be left in the driving seat. Mr. Blair has to drive the change forward on every issue that has been mapped out. ... Gerry Adams
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I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone else. At the time, I used to do people like Tony Blair and William Hague. It was very good fun hearing people kind of thinking, 'Hmm, is that who I think it is?'