Quotes with peace-at-any-price

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 2589.

  • Thomas Hardy My argument is that war makes rattling good history; but peace is poor reading.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Brendon Burchard My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Anna Freud My different personalities leave me in peace now.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Lord Melbourne My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Bill Vaughan My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bram Cohen My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Steve Jobs My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch My fellow citizens of the world, we are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.
    Source: Speech to United Nations meeting, 14 June 1946
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bobby Hull My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Wilma Rudolph My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
    Wilma Rudolph
     
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  • Benazir Bhutto My party would not have allowed the Taleban to become such a huge force that they would need to sign a peace treaty.
    Source: Destinys daughter
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Brent Scowcroft My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Betty Cuthbert My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
    Betty Cuthbert
    Australian athlete (1938 - 2017)
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  • Brigitte Bardot My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Ban Ki-moon My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Alvin Adams My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
    Alvin Adams
    American businessman (1804 - 1877)
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