Quotes 3181 till 3200 of 3662.
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Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!
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Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
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War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.
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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
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Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
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Wars begin through greed and vanity and are continued through the insanity of nationalism in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
Source: Interview with Kritya: In the Name of Poetry -
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
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