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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.
great-men conscious-and-unconscious
Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything. Carl Jung
great-men wells great-managers
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well. Pierre Corneille
great-men my-time has-beens
I have been called a great many things in my time - that's politics. Nigel Farage
preference
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. Thom Mayne
preference mathematician indifferent
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. Alfred North Whitehead
preference rights stick
If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better. James Lindsay
preference strong
I have a strong preference for being alive. Alan Alda
preference
Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery. Mark Thompson
preference return striking strong work workers
Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work.
preference
My preference would be to deploy them as warriors, (rather than peacekeepers), Dick Cheney
preference wear
Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans. Orlando Bloom
preference strong
You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely. Larry Ellison