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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.
communism pray someday understood
I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists. Michigan State
communism crap
I always thought communism was crap, really. Alexei Sayle
communism economic emphasis freedom individual liberties lived lives looking toward western
Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity. Vaclav Klaus
communism crusades imaginary
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. A. J. P. Taylor
communism die fall falls margaret medicine money people run socialism treatment waiting weight
Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke. Louie Gohmert
communism defense europe opposed states twice united wars
When called upon, the United States has come to the defense of Europe twice during World Wars I and II, and has opposed Communism around the world. John Linder
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Poles freed not just themselves, they launched a process which radiates until today, ... The fact that Poland threw off the yoke of communism led to the unification of Europe and a united Germany.
communism communist myth
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. Barbara Tuchman
communism understood
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. Elia Kazan
weaknesses
He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.
weakness amazed
What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness. Blaise Pascal
weakness reason humans
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.
weak-points weak attractive
What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them. Deepak Chopra
weakness driving conviction
Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go. Abraham Lincoln
weakness literature wells
What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground. Brit Hume
weakness
A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses. Babe Ruth
weakness doe cry
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness. Aleister Crowley
weakness excuse explanation
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness. Agatha Christie