Quotes with tug-of-war

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  • Bill Shuster The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
    The Devil's Disciple (1901)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The condition of man is a condition of war of every one against everyone.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Virginia Woolf The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • May Sarton The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Bud Grant The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • George Orwell The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Graham The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Uni
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Hiram Johnson The first casualty when war comes is truth.
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  • Ernest Hemingway The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The First World War had begun, imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
    The First World War (1963) p. 20
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
    Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles F. Kettering The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ''blood and sweat and tears.''
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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