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war ambition mean
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
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
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.
war heart character
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
war believe blow
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.
war believe writing
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
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
air-power civilized-nations crime
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. Jeane Kirkpatrick
air-power arms weapons
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future. J. F. C. Fuller
rockets seems
It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going. Alan Bean
rockets doe initiative
This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins. Elizabeth Moon
rockets fuel want
Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel Brad Bird
rockets fuel fridges
Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge! Adam Savage
rockets orbit microsoft
Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM. Bill Gates
rockets fuel resentment
Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber. Charlie Sheen
rockets
Solid-fuel rockets can't easily be shut down on command. Henry Spencer
rockets taliban
Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided. Richard Engel
rockets proportion difficulty
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. John Carmack