Quotes 821 till 840 of 1183.
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
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The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.
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The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
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The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
On War (1832) -
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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The post-war publish or perish tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
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The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
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