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distance men voice
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. Albert Camus
distance soul
Distance is the soul of beauty. Simone Weil
distance sin wrong-direction
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
distance bigs big-picture
The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time. Simon Sinek
distance future airplane
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be. Simon Newcomb
distance thinking defining-moments
I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance. Sam Taylor-Wood
distance golf indifference
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment. Sam Snead
distance letters mail
Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well. Thomas Mallon
distance shopping two
Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke. Victoria Moran
war world saving
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.
war fighting ivory-tower
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
war scare world
I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
war army vietnam
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.
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.
war earth faces
No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
war school sky
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.
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.
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.
world
For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished. Daniel Handler
world results activity
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. Arthur Schopenhauer
world use language
Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use. Alfred Korzybski
world maps links
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
world too-much rotten
Too much wit makes the world rotten. Alfred Lord Tennyson
world individual shore
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
world too-late late
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
world chess genius
Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again. Alexander Alekhine
world salvation wildness
In wildness is the salvation of the world, Aldo Leopold