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That would be a disaster because there would be no pressure on anyone to move forward. In the absence of broadly defined and accepted standards, we have to find a way to interconnect systems while at the same time continuing to refine and define standards. Randy Thomas
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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. Marguerite Gardiner
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Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once. Kurt Vonnegut
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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. William Gilmore Simms
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza
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Trading was confined within a narrow range in the absence of fresh stimulus. Overseas markets lack momentum and and there isn't any fresh news that could drive up activity. Alex Wong
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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. Alice Koller
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We'd like to talk to him and see what he knows. He's conspicuous by his absence. Mark Fulghum
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We don't have any witnesses that saw anybody run from the house. We don't have any DNA. There's really an absence of any evidence of an intruder murdering Lee Jones and then fleeing, Joe Ward
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power. Aung San Suu Kyi
peace forever balls
...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? Bob Dylan
peace war tyrants
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. Aesop
peace men long
The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity. Thomas de Quincey
peace war kind
General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm! Robert McNamara
peace people purpose
If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature. T. D. Jakes
peace thinking grandchildren
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. T. S. Eliot
peace libertarian poultry
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. T. S. Eliot
peace war nuclear
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists. Sydney J. Harris
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These are things the state wants you to forget. Steve Mottinger
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We're just going to let the governor's statement stand. Micah Rasmussen
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If they make the state meet, it could be fun. Gary Fischer
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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.
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Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues. Colin Powell
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world. Colin Powell
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With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict. Colin Powell
war america optimism
President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history. Colin Powell
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No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic. Colin Powell
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Terrorism threat is not just to American interests. The assaults in Russia against two airliners, bringing them out of the sky, and against a subway station, and then that horrible scene at the school in Beslan. This kind of terrorist activity no one is immune from it. And so it suggests that we have to do even more together to make sure the civilized worlds join together in the war against terrorism. Colin Powell
war military thinking
I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance, he has had many chances over the last 12 years and he has blown every one of those chances. Colin Powell
war army cutting
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it. Colin Powell