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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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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for…
— John James Audubon
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We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has…
— Alvar Aalto
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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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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
— Lewis Carroll
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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to…
— James Keller
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The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I…
— Confucius
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
— Ambrose Bierce
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We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid…
— Evelyn Underhill
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There are certain things about my game I don't want to change, but I think it's about time that I realized I…
— Unknown Author
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Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
— Jules Renard
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
— Oscar Wilde
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A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.
— Rumi
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