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Chris Christie We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.
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Edward Gibbon It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.
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Edward Gibbon [A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.
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Edward Gibbon It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.
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Edward Gibbon [Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.
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Dean Acheson Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
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David Hume Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.
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David Hume It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.
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Alan Watts To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
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Alan Watts You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
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Alan Rickman Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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Alan Rickman I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
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Alan Bennett To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Alan Bennett I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Alan Ayckbourn Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
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Alan Alda I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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Al Sharpton If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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Akon I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
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Chris Chocola We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.
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Chris Bauer I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.
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Chris Albrecht The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.
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Chita Rivera I have always loved a challenge.
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Chiwetel Ejiofor I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.
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China Mieville A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
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Bear Grylls The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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Denis Waitley Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.