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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. Allan Massie
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. Alistair Cooke
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. Alistair Cooke
war missing want
Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I? Alison McGhee
lying long black
A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box. Edsger Dijkstra
lying fighting people
I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who is left.' Don't you see? No one will be left. Protect them now or there will be no one to protect!' This is a battle that goes on and on. It never ends. You're too young to understand. No! You're too much of a coward to fight.' I was sick of lies and secrets and of battles so old we had to erase who we were to fight back. And still we lost. Still we were tied to posts. Alice Hoffman
lying divorce elements
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation. Albert Camus
lying real men
Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred. Albert Camus
lying writing commitment
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression. Albert Camus
lying three categories
A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden. Albert Camus
lying liberty
Liberty is the right not to lie. Albert Camus
lying fiction telling-the-truth
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. Albert Camus
lying burden-of-proof support
If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for him to bring forward evidence in support of his contention. The burden of proof evidently lies on him; it is not for me to prove that no such beings exist before my non-belief is justified, but for him to prove that they do exist before my belief can be fairly claimed. Similarly, it is for the affirmer of God's existence to bring evidence in support of his affirmation; the burden of proof lies on him. Annie Besant
military school army
I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store. Debby Ryan
military two-sides preparation
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. Albert Bushnell Hart
military two band
Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine. Nick Lowe
military light would-be
But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in. George Carey
military real war
The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real or substantial. It was calculated to intensify and compound the adverse psychological effects of the war by exploiting the backward outlook of large sections of Arab society and their role in the community. The intention was to achieve adverse psychological effects by saying to Arabs that they were defeated, in 1967, by women. Saddam Hussein
military used clear
Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used. Ronald Reagan
military war america
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment. Wendell Willkie
military gun needs
A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military Willie Nelson
military degrees subsidies
Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike. William O. Douglas