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The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.


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KELLY JONES But it's a soft start. The U.N. has been checking sites familiar to both sides. Contentious presiden...
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WILLIAM NELSON PENDLETON F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely...
ROBERT SHAPIRO Clearly, many of our problems could have been avoided if there had been greater commitment to eradic...
ANWAR IBRAHIM World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a dip...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE The log cabin that Robert E. Lee visited during his first campaign as General through Pocahontas Cou...
TOM SHIPLEY It doesn't look a whole lot different than when Robert E. Lee saw it. There was probably more activi...
GINNIE KOZAK War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and ...
AMIT KALANTRI This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world ...
ALICE PAUL He's too close - he lived well into the 20th Century, ... If you look at Thomas Jefferson and presid...
BRUCE TYLER I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
KEENEN IVORY WAYANS He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.
ROBERT E. LEE I got an e-mail on my business account saying that my password had been changed and my account had b...
JOY MILLS There have been some challenges and criticisms on both sides, but the fact of the matter is, the Def...
LYN HUGHES Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been ...
BIANCA JAGGER I do think there has been an air of cooperation, and I think we are going to read this here and see ...
DAN ADKINS A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only...
STEPHEN KING The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among...
JIM WEBB Hamilton works hard and will have an effect on both sides of the ball.
BOB WEINHOLD Much might be said on both sides.
JOSEPH ADDISON He's been working well at home so we knew he had an engine and Robert says he'll come on for that.
GRAHAM WYLIE If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?
ROMA TEARNE I wish it could have been avoided, which it could have, if she had... just said, 'Come on, y'all wal...
ANNETTE BAKER We've got to see if she'll actually pick up (the game) fast enough.
ANDY BEEN She's probably my biggest scoring threat right now.
ANDY BEEN Even though we're rebuilding, who knows what will pan out. They're enjoying it. I have 26, 27 girls ...
ANDY BEEN I hate to say to the seniors that we're rebuilding. But we are.
ANDY BEEN I am a satisfied man.
HARRY BEEN Our main goal this year is to advance to the regional final.
SHANE BEEN We have been informed of this by both parties. It's a welcome development, and we'll be looking for ...
PJ CROWLEY We practiced most of two-a-days without him. It would have been worse if he would have practiced thi...
BRENT VENABLES If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approac...
EILEEN MYLES Relief has been exchanged for Kashmiri villagers affected by the quake on both sides of the border,
NAZIR AHMED All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had b...
GIANNI AGNELLI We've been told we owe; we've been told we don't owe it, from reliable sources on both sides. We hon...
DAVID TROYER Both popes in their youth -- both on different sides and in different situations -- were forced to e...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Had we not retracted the article, it was fair and balanced on both sides. We included comments from ...
ALAN NEIGHER We're excited about it. It's been kind of fun because we think we have a chance on both sides (girls...
BRENT HAWKINS The two sides had detailed and productive discussions. There was greater clarity on the issues under...
NAVTEJ SARNA War brings out the most negative emotional human responses on both sides.
HENK MIDDELRAAD It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKY There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obv...
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM We believe that a breakdown in the testing process as well as communications caused an undue burden ...
JOE KOLSHAK A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, ha...
IRVING BABBITT Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open ...
AMIT CHAUDHURI It's a strange situation. I've been on both sides of the bench, so I know how they feel.
DAWN KARPELL What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
DARRELL ISSA While the e-VAT and the impeachment issue have both been resolved favorably in recent days, we are m...
JAMES MCCORMACK We are probably going to have a high turnout, because the call to arms has been extremely intense on...
ANDREA VANNUCCI When you think what might have happened if the talks had fallen apart, they have avoided a very seri...
MASAO OKONOGI Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe dur...
CAROLE KING We'll stay in touch by e-mail. It's going to call for a lot of trust on both sides.
JENNIFER DIAZ We haven't been finding a way to win ugly games but we found a way to get this win and we really nee...
CORLISS WILLIAMSON Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war s...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Though there has been no dramatic breakthrough on Kashmir, both sides are reaching for, and plucking...
UDAY BHASKAR Though there has been no dramatic breakthrough on Kashmir, both sides are reaching for, and plucking...
UDAY BHASKAR how do you always win at war, why be on both sides....
RADIKALMODERATE Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
JOHN ADAMS China and the United States avoided a trade war through negotiations, which provided a stable market...
JIN CHANGYI Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolut...
KEVIN RUDD Through my whole career I've walked the fence and been beaten up by both sides.
JOE FONTAINE The kids hit the ball well today - in fact, if anything we might have been a little too aggressive a...
CHUCK GRANT [The] statement is premature considering that no impartial investigation had been conducted wherein ...
MARIO BAUTISTA They've both had a lot of experience, and they'll kind of stabilize our infield. At least we have ex...
JANET LUGGE The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.
BILL DEDMAN If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whate...
HAROLD RAMIS Many of the confusions, conflicts, and disarrays that are rampant in today’s organizations, commun...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD It made me feel better. Mouse might not have been the
smartest creature on earth, but he was st...
JIM BUTCHER I had never been [beyond] Colorado or Utah. It was only my second time on an airplane by myself. I w...
KRISTI JOHNSON Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of l...
MAHATMA GANDHI ... [E]xperience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity an...
JAMES MADISON I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a co...
CARL SANDBURG [Meanwhile, General Mills, which had been investigating soy protein for cereals, was equally intrigu...
JAMES LAWRENCE The activity was not objectively directed toward the taking . . . (and) in all the circumstances (it...
BOB PACK If Shane had avoided her for years because of a kiss, he might leave the country over a blow and han...
NAIMA SIMONE I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and w...
DAVID LANGE Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has ...
DAVID KEENE It was especially trying on both counts because one was an accident and it might have been prevented...
CAPT. APRIL CONWAY Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid ...
DAN BROWN If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles wi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
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CLARENCE MORRISON In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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GIANNI AGNELLI Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
PAT BUCHANAN If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without h...
ELS BORST the interests of justice have been served, and further proceedings in this matter are unnecessary.
HOWARD WILSON A lot of misinformation has been put out there by both sides. People need to come to the meetings an...
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ROBERT E. LEE Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
ROBERT E. LEE It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.
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ROBERT E. LEE Strike the tent.
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GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE … I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the peo...
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you
cultivate the companionship of the...
REX E. LEE This is America. You can do anything here.
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ROBERT E. HOWARD Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumsta...
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ROBERT E. ORNSTEIN All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire.
ROBERT E. HOWARD To summarize, Easter Sunday is the most important Sunday. It is the Sunday of all Sundays. It is the...
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ROBERT E. HOWARD What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked la...
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ROBERT E. DAVIS The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itse...
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ROBERT E. SHERWOOD Drink life down, Empty the bottle, Taste, sip, guzzle, As to how, It matters not, Just drink life do...
ROBERT E. BERG Shaken and marked deeply so, Heart bared open rent asunder, Eyes dew-drops in the morning chill, Lab...
ROBERT E. BERG Happiness comes with simple things in life, sometimes a word, sometimes a kind gesture given or rece...
ROBERT E. BERG All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do ...
ROBERT E SHERWOOD Even in rain, we can be facinated with sensations of beauty in the world, sight, sound, smell, and d...
ROBERT E. BERG Seek another such matched dance, Fall again under such a trance, Can such dreams again be found? Lov...
ROBERT E. BERG I am the giver of life, part of every person. I am in the sky, a rainbow, a cloud, a humid day. I am...
ROBERT E. BERG Fill the phial full, decant love of life, don’t bottle it up, holding all inside.
ROBERT E. BERG Soft sweet memories haunting, Bring waking awareness to my soul, Bleed out upon this page, Thoughts ...
ROBERT E. BERG Wild abandon release the pain? Healing not yet to be gained, Mind and soul yet wrapped about, Dreame...
ROBERT E. BERG MUSINGS

The little poets sing of little things:
Hope, cheer, and f...
ROBERT E. HOWARD I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not ...
ROBERT E. HOWARD A person that knows what he wants is dangerous.
ROBERT E. MILLER As for relegated/delegated responsibility to ensure organizational software licensing compliance, ma...
ROBERT E. DAVIS Soil, spot, odorous clothes, Wash and rinse problems away, Grey water for plants to grow, A clean sh...
ROBERT E. BERG Basking in the Sunshine, Caress of your warm glow, Cast beneath a spell of passions, Lost of all con...
ROBERT E. BERG Tendrils of snow drifting along the beaten track, Bright sun shining through the lingering cold abov...
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ROBERT E. DAVIS How can I wear the harness of toil
And sweat at the daily round,
While in my soul forever<...
ROBERT E. HOWARD I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.
ROBERT E. HOWARD When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten.
ROBERT E. LIVINGSTON My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only sa...
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ROBERT LEE FROST Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me s...
ROBERT LEE FROST Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all t...
ROBERT LEE FROST Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all her...
VICTOR ROBERT LEE "Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."
ROBERT LEE FROST Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to t...
VICTOR ROBERT LEE Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
ROBERT GARY LEE The apparent antiquity of the gene responsible for red hair among Celtic peoples suggests that it ma...
ROBERT LEE HOTZ A kite only flies if it’s tethered.
VICTOR ROBERT LEE Todd was neuter, it seemed, except for the near-orgasmic pleasure he took from his formulas. Cono gu...
VICTOR ROBERT LEE Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors...
GENERAL ROBERT E. WOODS The impact of violent video games upon children is not as clearly established as the impact of viole...
ROBERT E. MCAFEE, MD. Through television and movies, our society is a virtual captive of an entire world of violence
ROBERT E. MCAFEE, MD. I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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