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Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's…
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep…
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Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future
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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is…
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When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement,…
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a…
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last…
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I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's…
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given…
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War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
— Omar N. Bradley
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
— William Hazlitt
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused,…
— Dean Koontz
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The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he…
— H. L. Mencken
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People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
— Allen Drury
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We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the…
— George W. Bush
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I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign…
— Anais Nin
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp…
— Tacitus
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Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
— Victoria Moran
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Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
— Confucius
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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
— Billy Sunday
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Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my…
— Colin Powell
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