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military america stronger
The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military. Chris Christie
military congress folks
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.
military eye men
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. Edward Gibbon
military europe numbers
[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.
military people victory
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.
military blood age
[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.
military self political
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. Dean Acheson
military reflection sublime
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. David Hume
military government opinion
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.
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never. Charles Caleb Colton
war thinking giving
We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot Alan Watts
war men people
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. Alan Moore
war men world
They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.
war responsibility power
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.
war oil iraq
The Iraq War is largely about oil. Alan Greenspan
war oil iraq
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
war world retrospect
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
war believe iraq
I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror. Alan Colmes
reality past concrete
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
reality negative
Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?
reality ultimate-reality ultimate
Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...
reality definitions purpose
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.
reality actors obstacles
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living. Alan Rosenberg
reality brain perception
The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.
reality ears facts
It's pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don't actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what's going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings.
reality thinking ideas
Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.
reality perception language
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.