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VINCE FLYNN I do not foresee a large-scale war, JASWANT SINGH ANG LEE WOODROW WILSON AVRIL LAVIGNE MICHAEL KORDA It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is... PADDY CHAYEFSKY If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World Wa... CHRISTIAN LACROIX SAMANTHA POWER YOKO ONO In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without ra... ARTHUR HENDERSON MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. NEWT GINGRICH The economic and technological triumphs of the past few years have not solved as many problems as we... HENRY FORD II HENRY FORD (Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 y... , COMMANDER OF BURPLESON AFB TO GROUP CAPT. MANDRAKE (PETER SELLERS) IN DR. STRANGELOVE We really played in spurts. But we have a tendency, it's almost like they lose interest when we get ... MAURA MCHUGH GEORGE GROSZ Politicians have the same occupational hazard as generals - focusing on the last battle and overreac... ANN LEWIS Politicians have the same occupational hazard as generals - focusing on the last battle and overreac... ANN F. LEWIS People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driv... KATE ADIE OTTO VON BISMARCK Second term presidencies have been remarkably difficult in the post-war era. ALLAN LICHTMAN FIDEL CASTRO ANTONY BEEVOR HOWARD ZINN HOWARD ZINN Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars. PAT BARKER I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. Th... JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO MAX SCHMELING [Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean tried to turn around the World War II argument.]... HOWARD DEAN I don't know why in the world they got Vietnam and Korean war memorials up, and they didn't have any... EILEEN MEADORS ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI Fraternity means that the father no longer sacrifices the sons; instead the brothers kill one anothe... ERNST JüNGER War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing a... AMY GOODMAN F. W. DE KLERK EDDIE REDMAYNE MAX SCHMELING For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in retu... KEN MEHLMAN I don't know how many generals there are. There are a couple thousand at least, and they're going to... ERIC RUFF DREW GILPIN FAUST I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war i... SHERYL CROW DOUGLAS MACARTHUR First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a ... ALVA MYRDAL RALPH WALDO EMERSON BELVA LOCKWOOD BELVA LOCKWOOD AVRIL LAVIGNE CHARLES DUHIGG WINSTON CHURCHILL I felt like I was definitely seeing something - the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost ... DAVID SHIELDS It's about Billy Bishop's time in the First World War when he becomes a man and a fighter pilot. JAMES BARRETT My hobby was the military. I had been reading military history, especially as it relates to the Civi... MARC RAMSEY DALAI LAMA RICK ATKINSON My government's action got the Peacemakers into this. Perhaps Tom was used as a message to the natio... CAROL ROSE We do have a couple of World War II tanks and other vehicles we can trace to a war, but this will be... CHAD DANIELS I don't know a country in the entire world that has made faster progress from war, let alone such a ... PADDY ASHDOWN Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who wor... DAVE PRICE VANNA BONTA Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper proble... GIL KANE Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know... ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN A. J. P. TAYLOR The United Nations Security Council has been silent on the war in northern Uganda for two decades. I... GREG PULEY After the revolution, four soldiers from that war settled in Rochester, ... We start with them and g... DAVID HARRELL CHARLES DE SECONDAT Oppression will lead to war. Imperialism will lead to war. Debt will enable war. Natural Resources w... ANTHONY I. LANE SUN TZU DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard ... LYNDON JOHNSON GEORGE ORWELL SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL WINSTON CHURCHILL One of the lessons of the Vietnam war is that when politicians dabble in military affairs they tie t... CHRIS MULLER We are winning the war against career politicians. They are backing down under fire as they usually ... MAX LINN In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept w... OSMAN BAYDEMIR Decisions made years earlier made going to war in any significant way impossible without Guard and R... CHARLES KROHN VIRGINIA POSTREL DOROTHY THOMPSON GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. GEORGE CLEMENCEAU ORSON SCOTT CARD (There’s a rumor that World War III almost started when the computer in charge of the North Americ... STUART GIBBS DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and menta... RAGNAR FRISCH A. J. P. TAYLOR SUNDAY ADELAJA In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any gene... BILL KRISTOL If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we hav... JOHN CURTIN
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian. ADAM HOCHSCHILD I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us v... ADAM HOCHSCHILD I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as ... ADAM HOCHSCHILD No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society a... ADAM HOCHSCHILD For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from raci... ADAM HOCHSCHILD The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the wors... ADAM HOCHSCHILD Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short. ADAM HOCHSCHILD Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow... ADAM HOCHSCHILD Congolese friends have often said to me that we wouldn't be in such dire straits if we weren't so ri... ADAM HOCHSCHILD The legacy of King Leopold very much lives on in the Congo. Here is a country which since colonial t... ADAM HOCHSCHILD Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, ma... ADAM HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ... ADAM Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, ... ADAM ADAM DURITZ Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating tur... ADAM DAVIDSON ADAM DRIVER ADAM WEST There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance. ADAM PEATY ADAM WEST You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It&... ADAM GREEN I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedbac... ADAM OATES ADAM GRANT So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't... ADAM LEVINE Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true... ADAM LEVINE ADAM MCKAY I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm... ADAM LEVINE The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was most... ADAM MICHNIK I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself th... ADAM LAMBERT I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most o... ADAM LAMBERG ADAM SANDLER ADAM SANDLER ADAM WEST ADAM MCKAY It is unlikely that we will hit a home run anytime soon but if we are unable to get rid of offensive... ADAM DODEK That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can c... ADAM CHRISTOPHER Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something abou... ADAM CHRISTOPHER To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to sp... ADAM CHRISTOPHER 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic... ADAM CHRISTOPHER My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the... ADAM CHRISTOPHER The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bi... ADAM BROWN As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start. ADAM BROWN It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches. ADAM BROWN You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It&#... ADAM BROWN ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BRODY ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH ADAM BEACH I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own. ADAM BALDWIN I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio. ADAM BALDWIN The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clin... ADAM BALDWIN I'm not much of a jokester. ADAM BALDWIN You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over. ADAM BALDWIN My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours. ADAM BALDWIN I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall. ADAM BALDWIN I think work begets work. ADAM BALDWIN What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it. ADAM BALDWIN The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines.... ADAM BALDWIN I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape. ADAM BALDWIN A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e... ADAM BALDWIN I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch ... ADAM BALDWIN I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me. ADAM BALDWIN It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A... 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ADAM PEATY I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music. ADAM PEATY My family are massive fans of 'I'm A Celeb,' so that would be pretty cool. There's s... ADAM PEATY I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a chea... ADAM PEATY It hasn't always been a sweet ride. When I was 15, I almost hated racing in finals because I was... ADAM PEATY Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat r... ADAM PEATY I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself. ADAM PEATY I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff. ADAM PEATY Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how we... ADAM PEATY I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ev... ADAM PEATY Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years. 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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. 
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It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. On... 
The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war. 
The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only... 
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It w... 
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. 
I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the peo... 
When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939... 
Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectivel... 
In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and again... 
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war s... 
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. 
The economic and technological triumphs of the past few years have not solved as many problems as we... 
What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated a... 
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations 
Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration tha... 
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those st... 
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or t... 
Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany ... 
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clea... 
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He ... 
I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watch... 
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through t... 
Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it ... 
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men ... 
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would... 
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would a... 
Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bo... 
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficu... 
It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, t... 
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our f... 
Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem. 
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only... 
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. 
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, w... 
I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a func... 
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ... 
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, ... 
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, b... 
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shatte... 
They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war... 
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. 
Too many people in the American media have lost any concept of loyalty to their country -- if they e... 
When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've alm... 
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered t... 
The sons of God are not supposed to go into battle against their problems, they should always go eve... 
Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emoti... 
The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, Ge... 
No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possibl... 
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear... 
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... 
When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ... 
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i... 
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care. 
I like sitting and writing with my buddies. 
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's... 
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's... 
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. ... 
I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself. 
There are certain things women are better at than men. 
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever. 
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me. 
It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no? 
I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I go... 
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ... 
When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work ... 
Bad things happen sometimes. 
Creative people are more prone to depression. 
Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocke... 