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war thinking giving
Alan Watts 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
war men people
Alan Moore 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.
war men world
Alan Moore 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
Alan Moore 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
Alan Greenspan The Iraq War is largely about oil.
war oil iraq
Alan Greenspan I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
war world retrospect
Alan Greenspan 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
Alan Colmes I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.
ambition mind firsts
Charles Caleb Colton Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.
ambition errors suffering
Charles Caleb Colton The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.
ambition perception prudent
Alan Hansen It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
ambition want plus
Aiden Wilson Tozer We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.
ambition goal quality
Chogyam Trungpa There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.
ambition successful men
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man
ambition order desire
Edward Gibbon The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity.
ambition voice feet
Edward Gibbon The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness.
ambition men thinking
David Hume Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
race knows
Chief Joseph I know that my race must change.
race white-privilege choices
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
race white-privilege choices
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
race racism matter
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The only reason race matters is because of racism.
race vanity desire
Edward Gibbon A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.
race errors history
Edward Gibbon The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.
race class people
Eddie Marsan Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
race may natural
David Ricardo LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
race talking earth
David Icke The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes.