“And what she understood-what none of the ones who came to touch Simon’s forehead understood-was that the misery of war represented the… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
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This is business: they don't care about your lyrics; The better you sell, the better future for their children. Controversy sells, so… — Cormega Copy Share Image
The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me,… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to bring them into this mess. Don’t want them to know how much of a mess I really am… — C.M. Seabrook Copy Share Image
“The explosion of grotesque immorality we associate with imperial Rome—open prostitution and perversion, the bloody gladiatorial combats, and so forth—is best understood… — Rod Bennett Copy Share Image
Wrestling allowed me to control my opposition. I got to choose where the fight was going, offensively and defensively. I got to… — Matt Hughes Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that we didn't know history. Even if you only count the real world, we knew more history than most people.… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the… — Corey Ford Copy Share Image
After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
I hope we don't export conflict from this planet into the others. None of the paradigms that define us here on earth… — Rakesh Sharma Copy Share Image
My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've… — Mackenzie Crook Copy Share Image
To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
“THE THING WAS AN EXPERT IN HORROR, BUT THIS HUMAN HORROR INDEED EXCEEDED ANY OTHER POSSIBLE FATE. NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT WAS… — guillermo del toro Copy Share Image
Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create… — Fergie Copy Share Image
As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower... both those teaching and those learning are… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“But it must not be forgotten that ‘politics’ has been conceived as a continuation, if not exactly and directly of war, at… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Working moms elevate themselves above stay-at-home moms, and stay-at-home moms try to put down working moms. It's a war in which both… — Leslie Morgan Steiner Copy Share Image
“To pass the time, I made valiant strides in my effort to read Ulysses, but feared I was losing the war. A… — B. Justin Shier Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“If Barack Obama had come up in a time when the drug war was being waged as intensely as it is now,… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
“Responding to the claim that not just reading but "high culture" in general is morally improving, Terry Eagleton points out that, during… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was this conflict within me because so many people would come up to me to ask for prayers for all sorts… — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money; and though that is… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, it is right in the midst of the major energy reserves in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The Balance, my boy, is the war that has been waged since before time was time, the battle within ourselves to do… — Nikolas Lee Copy Share Image
You show a tennis ball to 100 people I'm sure some of them are going to say it's green, and not yellow.… — Daniil Medvedev Copy Share Image
Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
“most accounts of the war, Missouri tends to wink out of existence after the first year, or makes periodic cameos as a… — Mark A. Lause Copy Share Image
“I needed very much to continue to believe in the goodness of humanity, because war is terrifying. And terrified people make choices… — April White Copy Share Image
