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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.
forests rich instinct
A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct. Dawn Powell
forests tribes might
If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe. Bill Nye
forests ends our-lives
The death of the forest is the end of our life. Dorothy Stang
forests paper toilets
Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper Daphne Zuniga
forests matter hard
Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried! Darren Clarke
forests monsters looks
Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest? Angela Carter
forests found interested kinds mock models rain solar subject systems talking teacher wall
There aren't models of solar systems or mock rain forests or any other kinds of displays in the classrooms. If it is a subject they have always found to be difficult, they are going to be disinterested in what the teacher is talking about and be more interested in what's on the wall or what's on the ceiling.
forests needs knows
Everything I need to know I learned in the forest Vandana Shiva
forests athens politics
The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts. William Shakespeare
clash engage follow friction ideals mutual ourselves scholars society therefore thoughts understanding unity virtuous
Unity can only come when there is better co-ordination and mutual understanding in the society; when there is no friction of thoughts and clash of ideologies. We should therefore follow the ideals established by the scholars and engage ourselves in virtuous deeds.
clash cultural divisions faith reject somehow
One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other. Krista Tippett
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We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: ""smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.""Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...
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What's great about 'The Avengers' is that it's the next step. It's not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. It's about superheroes that come together and interact. It's a clash of the egos. You could do 'Avengers 1' without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion. Louis Leterrier
clash films ideals time
My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way. Lars von Trier
clash efficient production social
The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge. Yanis Varoufakis
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We work for this all year. We go to The Clash and those other tournaments to be ready for state. This is what our whole season is geared for.
clash fight later rather title year
Right now I would rather fight for the WBO World title later this year than clash with Gomez. Michael Gomez
clash corner extremes meeting wit
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner