Charles Stross Quotes
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
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You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
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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.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
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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.
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I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
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It is not only the people of Gaza that can't afford having a fourth war - all the world cannot afford this.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
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With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.
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Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
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The thing I like most about acting is that it entertains people. Films and TV can also offer such comfort to people... TV especially, because it's in people's homes and they can watch it at home. It offers them insights into different cultures and ideas, which I think is great.
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All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.
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I was actually more of a baseball and Padres fan when I was younger.
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The Cold War was all about who could build the biggest refrigerator, wasn’t it?
