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war world saving
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
war what-if ifs
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came? Allen Ginsberg
war lying military
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. Allan Massie
war men soldier
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
war achievement president
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war. Allan Lichtman
war college soldier
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges Alistair Cooke
war drama memorable
More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.
war promise holy
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
war missing want
Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I? Alison McGhee
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past stuff helping
That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help. Tommy Lee
past thinking ideas
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. Tommy Lee Jones
past doors feelings
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos. Tom Wolfe
past years done
I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years. Steven Spielberg
past average years
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago. Steven Johnson
past sight darkness
Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness. Steven Erikson
past banjos capture
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. Steve Martin
past way remember
It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it. Steve Berry
light levis life-is
You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. Charles Bukowski
light lamps hell
If you don't take the lamp of awareness with you, you are going to create a hell around you. Light your lamp wherever you gocourting, not courting, that is not the point. Wherever you go, whatsoever you do, always do it in the inner light, with awareness. Rajneesh
light path shows
Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.
light people joy
People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are doing. That destroys their freshness. Do things in your own style; live your life according to your own light. And even if the same situation arises, be alert to find a new response. It is only a question of a little alertness, and once you have started enjoying... and it is really a great joy to respond to old situations always in a new way, because that newness keeps you young, keeps you conscious, keeps you non-mechanical, keeps you alive.
light live-your-life lions
Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.
light darkness obscurity
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness. Socrates
light together elements
Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together. Merce Cunningham
light odd should
How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing. Michelle Paver
light brain sugar
Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They've discovered that the brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine. Michael Moss