Quotes with war-making

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  • Les Brown You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Billy Joel You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ''clicks.''
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • Calvin Coolidge [On war debts incurred by foreign nations to the United States:] They hired the money, didn't they?
    c. 1925. Wit and Wisdom (1933)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Babe Ruth [When told that he was making more than the president of the United States Herbert Hoover in 1930:] I had a better year than he did.
    Boston Globe, Will Rogers Dispatch by Will Rogers, January 9, 1930
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Oscar Wilde As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Armstrong Williams For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Donald Trump I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals.
    Trump: The Art of the Deal (2009) inl.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Big Pun I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.
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  • Winston Churchill In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • John F. Kennedy Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Richard Nixon No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Andre Breton No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Telephone. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alistair Cooke These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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