Quotes 2261 till 2280 of 2589.
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War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Source: Speech to the Chamber of Deputies (28 April 1939), quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 2 -
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.
Source: Winter Journal (2012) 101 -
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
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We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
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We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
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We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
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We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
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