Quotes with peace-at-any-price

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  • Henry James I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • William Shakespeare I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lord George Byron I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Germaine Greer I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Dwight L. Moody I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Charles Dickens I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Mark Twain I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Edmund Burke I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Martin Luther I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
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  • Hubert Humphrey I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Ann Veneman I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Marshall Field I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
    Marshall Field
    American businessman (1834 - 1906)
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  • Anna Louise Strong I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Bruce Willis I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Sarah Bernhardt I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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