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strong war distance
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
strong team home
Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team Becca Fitzpatrick
strong lying home
Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.
strong wells true-north
Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free. Barry Pepper
strong ideas hungry
I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create. Barry Manilow
strong reading mean
I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it. B. D. Wong
strong military war
It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness. B. H. Liddell Hart
strong war military
If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
strong military successful
The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.
hate job lay lose nature people work
People know when they take this job this could happen, because it's the nature of the contracting business, but it still hurts. We hate to see this happen. We hate to lose the work and we hate to lay off employees. Gregory Lagana
hate people relationships themselves
People never hate you! They just dont like themselves in your presence.
hate saving
Remember, Razumov, that women, children, and revolutionists hate irony, which is the negation of all saving instincts, of all faith, of all devotion, of all action. Joseph Conrad
hate hatred plant racial seeds
plant the seeds of racial separateness and of hatred in the law. Bruce Fein
hate light hair
Patch smiled. “You come by your red hair naturally?” I stared at him. “I don’t have red hair.” “I hate to break it to you, but it’s red. I could light it on fire and it wouldn’t turn any redder.
hate earth naked
Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.
hate thinking looks
Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama. Barry McGuire
hate doors grace
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.
hate love-is opposites
The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love. Barry Lopez
weapons
Mr. President, where are the weapons that you told us about? Howard Dean
weapons human-nature realizing
When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature. Dianne Feinstein
weapons needs construction
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves. Walter Benjamin
weapons
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. Samuel Butler
weapons junk defeated
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated. Aldrich Ames
weapons mein-kampf willpower
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower. Adolf Hitler
weapons sophisticated defeated
The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. Abu Bakar Bashir
weapons may remember
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess. Agatha Christie
weapons lethal-weapon ifs
If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal. Orson Scott Card