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President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he's been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association. Argus Hamilton
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Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores. Anthony Weiner
military war years
Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length. Barbara Lee
military war simple
In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war. Carl von Clausewitz
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The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. Calvin Coolidge
military trying president
(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power. Carl T. Rowan
military battle produce
Only great and general battles can produce great results
military war events
War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.
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The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard. Steve Gross
fighting people might
A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words. Brandon Lee
fighting delicate-life needs
And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself? Brandon Sanderson
fighting style stubborn
When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on. Boris Spassky
fighting thinking community
I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval. Archie Panjabi
fighting people pace
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration. Ben Okri
fighting men battle
A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
fighting numbers mind
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. Ayn Rand
fighting pride men
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth
cities proud
I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,' Earl Wilson
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This is not a radical group of hard-line, right-wing people making unrealistic demands. It's a reasonable group of officials that are seeking some rational solutions to immigration problems that our cities and our communities face.
cities grandfather four
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. Aravind Adiga
cities jerusalem addresses
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. Ben Nicholson
cities choices multiplicity
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. Jane Jacobs
cities paris london
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend. James Weldon Johnson
cities venice mind
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
cities wonderful manchester
Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times. Benjamin Disraeli
cities crowds biomass
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me. Alan Garner