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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. Alan Lakein
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In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population. Alan Keyes
military war risk
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly. Charles de Gaulle
military destiny instruments
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
military rain weather
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
military drinking and-love
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making. Charles Dickens
military opportunity land
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Charles Stanley
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His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky. David Morrell
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Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's. Carol Leifer
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally. Brian Eno
airports shopping special
All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it. Dave Barry
airports hell hares
...Hell, which as every frequent traveler knows, is in Concourse D of O'Hare Airport.
airports car currents
In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food. Jami Attenberg
airports percent
Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service. Chris Brown
airports blue sky
Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time. Edward Ruscha
airports weapons prison
We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports. Bruce Schneier
airports squares feminist
I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers? Caitlin Moran
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When these people are released - and I believe they will be - they will be dumped onto the streets of Baghdad and the only place they will have to go is back to our apartment. We have to have someone there. Allan Slater
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There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions. Scott Ritter
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The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad. Rich Lowry
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If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil. Isabella Bird
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No country, including the US, would dare stop Baghdad from approaching Tehran since Iraq is an independent state, Jalal Talabani
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We did a show in San Antonio that was really amazing. The military helped us do a satellite to Baghdad where during intermission we had eight families seated in the front row and one by one they were able to communicate with their loved ones using the cameras to see each other. It was so emotional and nobody moved even though it was the intermission. Amy Grant
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Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.' Conan O'Brien
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The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011. Dexter Filkins
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That's what happened in Baghdad today and that's what happened in Amman yesterday.