Quotes with war-making

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  • Sir Isaac Newton Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Howard W. Newton Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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  • David Hockney Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
    David Hockney
    English painter and printmaker (1937 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Noel Coward That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Cordell Hull That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
    Cordell Hull
    American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 (1871 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Castle That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Abel Ferrara That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Bud Abbott That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • John Foster Dulles The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Barry Commoner The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Edmund White The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
    Edmund White
    American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940 - )
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  • Alain de Botton The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • William Hazlitt The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Noam Chomsky The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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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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  • Russell Lynes The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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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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