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The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. Richard Holbrooke
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If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former. Townsend Harris
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The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
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The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
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Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad. Rick Riordan
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When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?
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Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness
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I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously
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The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee. Regis Philbin
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Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. . . . (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics. Jennifer Granholm
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I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier. Gene Luen Yang
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We took very seriously our responsibilities with the government. All of us have a very strong belief in the Army and how it operates and what it does for us. We took a lot of pride in supporting the soldier in whatever way we could. When we left the Arsenal, it was very difficult for us. We wanted to let them know we would support them in any way we could.
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I am bitterly disappointed that Anniston Army Depot did not gain personnel from Red River Army Depot as the Defense Department had recommended, Jeff Sessions
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He had his mind set for what he wanted. And he was going to get it no matter what, ... He went into the Army thinking, 'I'll give it a try.'
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We can enjoy this win a little bit, but we need to come back and focus, ... It's great to celebrate, but at the same time, we need to remember that going to Army is a business trip.
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In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police. Ruben Aguilar
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[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me. Truman Capote
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I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from. Trey Songz
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If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution. Rebecca West
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Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency. Richard M. Nixon
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History is a relay of revolutions. Saul Alinsky
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We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution. William Randolph Hearst
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Vladimir Nabokov
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It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death. Octavio Paz
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. Karl Marx
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! Patrick Henry
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Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk