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"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." »Winston Churchill
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"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." »Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
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"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare." »John Burroughs
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"Love is a kind of warfare." »Ovid
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"The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."" »Author Unknown
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"When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare." »Woodrow Wilson
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"No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence." »Woodrow Wilson
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"All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him." »Sun-Tzu
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"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain." »Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984-88
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"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere." »Voltaire
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"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." »Maya Angelou
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"Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day." »Carmen Electra
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"There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be." »Lao Tzu
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"The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them." »Rudolf Virchow
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"Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run." »Margaret Mead
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"I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center." »Stephen Spender
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"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter
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"The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying." »Edward Hoagland
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"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand." »Oprah Winfrey
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"We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »Orrin Hatch
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"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia." »Hans Albrecht Bethe
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"This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »John McCain
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"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." »Howard Thurman
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"Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time." »Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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"The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation." »George McGovern
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"Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish." »E. M. Cioran
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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"Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." »William Butler Yeats
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"With Epcot center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life." »P. J. O'Rourke
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