Albert Einstein Quotes
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster -
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
F. W. de Klerk -
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant -
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Samuel Butler -
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
Ian Anderson
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
Hamza Yusuf -
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
Baz Luhrmann -
Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
Walter Cronkite -
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
Tariq Ali -
I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
Walter Cronkite -
I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
Imelda Marcos
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
Karl Marlantes -
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. Priestley -
BRAC originated in the 1960s under President Kennedy as the Department of Defense (DOD) had to realign its base structure after World War II and the Korean War. At that time, the DOD was able to close bases without congressional interference, and 60 bases were closed in the 1960s.
Sam Brownback -
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
Sam Ervin -
When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
E. Joseph Cossman -
We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
Hanoi Hannah
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
T. Boone Pickens -
Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
Yasmin Mogahed -
Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
Pankaj Mishra -
It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
Alva Myrdal -
Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.
Akong Rinpoche -
You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
Albert Einstein