“Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
When we were young, there weren't very many smart people in the investment world. You should have seen the people in the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I got mad enough to want to kill somebody but as you travel the world and I'm… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development.… — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
Even Boris Johnson doesn't think there's going to be a United States of Europe. And I think there's a real question here… — Ruth Davidson Copy Share Image
We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially..." "It was… — Ahmad Shukeiri Copy Share Image
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God’s fear, & minding the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If I was a CIA front company, what would I want to be able to do? Well, I would want to be… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the… — Sean Lemass Copy Share Image
If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being… — David Dixon Porter Copy Share Image
My dad lived a good life. He was a simple guy. His family had been poor, and he joined the Marines to… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school.… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
My father thought that if I was to go into the army, at the least I would have a reliable paycheck at… — Vieux Farka Toure Copy Share Image
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I always thought that owing to their social standing, army spouses had to maintain a dignified appearance, no matter what, at all… — Pranitha Subhash Copy Share Image
If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Rule by the statist elite is not benign or simply a matter of who happens to be in office: it is rule… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth.… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I love writing about the military, as I live near an air force base and am inspired by the sacrifices our soldiers… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
I went through kindergarten through 12th grade, college, law school and four years of active duty in the U.S. Army and I… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to decide. It's a really difficult one because I really enjoy my time in the Air Force. And I'd… — Prince William Copy Share Image
Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do two years in the regular army, my music career was just getting started. So, I joined the… — Eddie Rabbitt Copy Share Image
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
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