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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.
scales planets chemicals
We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched. David Suzuki
scales teach
Do things that won't scale; it will teach you. Brian Chesky
scales truth
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. Ann Voskamp
scales consumed
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed. David Eagleman
scales stories
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will. David Christian
scales
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing. Christopher Nolan
scales chords collapse
As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses. Jonny Greenwood
scales tested has-beens
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. Ellsworth Huntington
scales ifs knows
You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios. James Galway
total-war
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much! Aristophanes