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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.
baptists
Baptists burn more slowly. Billy Bragg
baptists fluffy worried
The fundamentalists were equally stymied. “We were worried about Adam and Steve,” a Baptist minister said. “Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy? Charlaine Harris
baptists ulysses old-testament
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. William Faulkner
grew kids numbers
Our numbers grew approximately 20 kids this year. Pat Clark
grew pittsburgh
Somehow, in Arkansas, I grew up a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Rod Smith
grew positive secondary
Our secondary grew up a little in the second half. There were some positive things going on.
grew grew-up associates
I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. Billy Corgan
grew grew-up britain
I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain. Bill Bryson
grew
I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality. Daniela Ruah
grew huge maturity step took toward
I think they grew up, and they took a huge step toward maturity. Greg Davis
grew market sales year
(The Asia/Pacific) market grew at about 6.5% year over year, and our sales grew about 20%.
grew ireland northern
I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly. James Nesbitt