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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.
cruelty england fair medieval
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong. Terry Jones
cruelty exercise holiday mental perfect
To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday. Georgia Witkin
cruelty english-novelist nature
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. Thomas Hardy
cruelty effects ill
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel
cruelty feeling fragile law limited medium mere reason standing tyranny
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling Felix Frankfurter
cruelty ethnic evolved found genes likely mean multiple survival variations
If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier.
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I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war. Alan Furst
cruelty dialogue difference education fight hit others peace
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. Malala Yousafzai
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The maliciousness, the intentional, deliberate cruelty that we see is incredibly frightening.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato
conquest
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest. Algernon Sidney
conquest leave permanent regrets
The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. Napoleon Bonaparte
conquest master self self-knowledge
Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.
conquest persons precarious
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope. Gabriel Marcel
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And ever since the Conquest have been fools. John Wilmot
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Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
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That's not going to be an easy conquest for him. He's got a lot of unhappy campers in the trenches. Don Martin
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The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it Richard Steele