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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.
expression games people
The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game. Alan Watts
expression freedom-of-speech given
I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control. Alan Bennett
expression who-i-am kind
Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do. David Sanborn
expression dies
That'll be the day when I die. Buddy Holly
expression spirituality achieve
Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good Brunello Cucinelli
expression worry soul
But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. Jack Kerouac
expression old-habits together
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. Charles Kuralt
expression choices needs
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need. Ai Weiwei
expression needs purpose
You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
punishment suffering sides
God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .
punishment joy endless
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy. Charles Spurgeon
punishment words-of-wisdom rooms
The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime." David Shore
punishment unjust administration
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment. Bryan Stevenson
punishment crime certainty
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment Cesare Beccaria
punishment might body
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism. Catherine the Great
punishment might rewards
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair. Kurt Vonnegut
punishment religion doe
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience. August Strindberg
punishment roots evil
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics. Bertrand Russell