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Air power is an unusually seductive form of military strength, in part because, like modern courtship, it appears to offer gratification without commitment.


Eliot Cohen

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GEORGE ELIOT Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
GEORGE ELIOT We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: th...
GEORGE ELIOT Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires ...
GEORGE ELIOT We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same in...
GEORGE ELIOT What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOT The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
GEORGE ELIOT In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
GEORGE ELIOT Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
GEORGE ELIOT My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measu...
GEORGE ELIOT Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputat...
GEORGE ELIOT I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.
ELIOT SPITZER I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them...
GEORGE ELIOT The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT