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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.
taught-us common-sense culture
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. Alan Watts
taught-us parent hopeful
My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone. Bryan Stevenson
taught-us action oppression
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough. Audre Lorde
taught-us people swim
I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim. Carlos Mencia
taught-us holocaust lessons
The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us. Ariel Sharon
taught-us culture growing
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. Daniel H. Wilson
taught-us independence india
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count Albert Einstein
taught-us information three
Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions aren't met, I can't outsource or partner with you because markets don't function in the absence of sufficient information. Clayton Christensen
taught-us evil world
The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century. Allyson Schwartz
iraq groups done
In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441. David Kay
iraq september-11 enemy
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist Carl Levin
iraq campaigns liberation
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror
iraq world credibility
The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world
iraq lebanon middle-east
The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East. David Horowitz
iraq body decided
When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer. Asne Seierstad
iraq united-states doe
Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations. Dennis Kucinich
iraq bags scum
I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac. Dennis Miller
iraq unfinished-business office
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam. Edward Kennedy