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war cutting two
This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat. Charlie Chaplin
war differences bombs
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.
war evil spheres
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. Charles Sumner
war age economics
Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
war greatness men
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.
war fall believe
Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.
war hate men
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man? Charles Dudley Warner
war greatness genius
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal! Charles de Gaulle
war battle france
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
party thinking evil
I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into peoples minds better than we Liberals. Charles Trevelyan
party organization issues
It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth. Charles Edison
party deception flattery
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. Charles Caleb Colton
party two quarrels
There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect Charles Dickens
party mean men
Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.
party believe sarcasm
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.
party dark feet
The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.
party people tea
Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there! Alan Grayson
party guy police
If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities, the FBI, the police, the Democratic (Party) anybody that would listen. I wouldn't depend on one guy with the Department of Transportation. Alan Colmes
character ideas clothes
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
character tramps figures
My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.
character men law
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.
character men realizing
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
character adversity responsibility
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
character hard-times virtue
Character is the virtue of hard times.
character normal dysfunctional-family
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm. Charles de Lint
character attention elements
When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
character interesting grind
The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.