“...but in 1917 we had no cares except the mundane ones of starvation and occupation and civil war, and for those of… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“HMS Belfast is a gunship of 11,000 tons, commissioned in 1939, which saw active service in the Second World War. Since then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Women and men will have to go through the same physical test before they get into these ground combat jobs, and the… — Renee Montagne Copy Share Image
“It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I twist away, pulling her with me, and the battle begins. We roll over each other, tumbling, wrestling, tangling in the sand… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with _Jurassic Park (1993). But the danger is that… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
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The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
I am still covering conflict to some degree. I was back in Iraq. I've covered quite a bit of the Israel and… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
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The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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'Turn to Stone' was written about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War and the protesting that was going on and all… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war,… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
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[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
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If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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