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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
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 Carl von Clausewitz
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. Carl von Clausewitz
military war rain
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky. Charles Kingsley
military makeup differences
I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them. Charles Cumming
military technology competition
Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition. Denis Healey
military can-not
Success can not be administrated. Arleigh Burke
military war mean
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. "A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. Edmund Burke
gentleman gentlemen true
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. Oscar Wilde
gentleman printing presses
I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon. Benjamin Disraeli
gentleman secret inconsistent
It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent. Debra Winger
gentleman action diligent
The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action. Confucius
gentleman pockets philanthropy
Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. Ambrose Bierce
gentleman feminism busy
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. Anna Quindlen
gentleman encounters opinion
Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love? William Shakespeare
gentleman circumstances behave
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. Simon Raven
gentleman world failing
Ladies and gentlemen, the economic disaster, the tailspin, the destruction of the greatest economic engine in the history of the world, these policies of Barack Obama's, which have led us to this point, are precisely why I fearlessly said and still say, I hope he fails. Rush Limbaugh
officers people police trying
Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road. Barbara Matthews
officers patrol three time
With everyone working 12-hour schedules, we went from three shifts a day to two shifts a day, ... Now we're able to give our patrol officers time off. Don Kelly