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Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.


Rick Atkinson

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JOHN CORNYN Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a ‘weakness’.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!
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JOHN O'NEILL I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
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STEVEN MAGEE God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
VOLTAIRE God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) God is always on the side of the big battalions.
VOLTAIRE God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
VOLTAIRE Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions
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ED PERRY War is not one disaster of milions of people. War is milions of disasters of one person.
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CHARLES GIANCARLO Under command and control, these different radio systems can interoperate with one another.
CHARLES GIANCARLO The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
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HOMER We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN In our Country . . . one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.
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BARRY COMMONER Rick Perry just doesn't get it,
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AMOS OZ I listen to some Kevin Gates, Rick Ross, Fabolous.
MARSHAWN LYNCH The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.
WILLA CATHER The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER AIDS makes the system of global apartheid clear. We should be spending money on AIDS, not on war.
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GORDON ATKINSON You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
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GORDON ATKINSON I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose ...
GORDON ATKINSON This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or ...
GORDON ATKINSON I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you ...
GORDON ATKINSON Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
GORDON ATKINSON My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful ...
GORDON ATKINSON Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
GORDON ATKINSON The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush ...
GORDON ATKINSON I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended perio...
ROWAN ATKINSON We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five yea...
ROWAN ATKINSON Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ...
KATE ATKINSON I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that ...
ROWAN ATKINSON Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.
RON ATKINSON I would have proposed more innovative initiatives, but given our benchmark, which was zero, I think ...
ROB ATKINSON Ideally, who you really want in that position is an entrepreneur who has built a small business into...
ROB ATKINSON We've been in recently to quite a few creative agencies talking about what we can do from an outdoor...
ROB ATKINSON We know what techniques work best and what technology people should use for any particular brief.
ROB ATKINSON Andy Eastwood is our new offensive coach and he's helping us with our man up offense. We had trouble...
ROB ATKINSON We've had one practice. I gave them Saturday off. We're going to keep doing what we do. You don't ha...
RITA ATKINSON We need to be patient and move the ball well. We need balance with an inside-outside game. But if we...
RITA ATKINSON One of the reasons for our success this year is clearly that 13 kids came to practice every day and ...
RITA ATKINSON She said they're a perimeter team .... They're scrappy, and they push the ball up court on the fast ...
RITA ATKINSON The guys just come to our gigs to pick up girls, if nothing else.
NICK ATKINSON But we have just found the more we play live in the UK, the more people have started to talk about o...
NICK ATKINSON I guess it is better for people to talk about us than not talk about us.
NICK ATKINSON In the future we'll have to change our name to the Rats or something,
NICK ATKINSON For me, that was a worry, and I sat down with him and said exactly that, ... But when you talk to so...
NICK ATKINSON