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There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill…
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War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are…
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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the…
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War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to…
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War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits…
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War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the…
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The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas…
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For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to…
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I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the…
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I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place…
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I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for…
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The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas…
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a…
— Ayn Rand
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high…
— Warren Buffett
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All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains…
— Dennis C. Blair
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Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.
— Suze Orman
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Honor may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.
— Ishida Mitsunari
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For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
— Franz Beckenbauer
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It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.
— Tony Blair
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with…
— Herodotus
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Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under…
— Walter Cunningham
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The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness
— Ignatius Loyola
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