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My goal is to maintain the international norm on banning chemical weapons. I want that enforcement to be real. I want it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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“If you're hoping for salvation or whatever, it has very little merit in it. I was referring to the final battle on… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
He held up a finger and went to the hallway, where he tripped over Blotchy, and then over the two monster cats… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Our world faces many grave challenges: Widening conflicts and inequality. Extreme weather and deadly intolerance. Security threats - including nuclear weapons. We… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
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We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war.… — Sonny Vaccaro Copy Share Image
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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The social and political climate came from discussions about how we could find conflict in the wake of a 100-year-long war ending.… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
“When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present passions be succeeded by calm reflection, or when those, who,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
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I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
First of all, we have to say loud and clear to all those who are engaged in the fighting that attention to… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or whatever the fuck… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
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My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with… — Julie Salamon Copy Share Image
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I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
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If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
“Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is or has meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious hope that… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in… — Rebecca Pidgeon Copy Share Image
“Anyway, she thinks we're going to be all right. Like she says, a positive attitude is ninety-seven percent of the battle." This… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“It has been calculated that what with salvos, royal and military politeness, courteous exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Charlie Rangel is angry about the Iraq war, the one that Henry Kissinger has told us we can't win. Thanks, Henry, but… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
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