Plutarch Quotes
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
Plutarch
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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
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By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.
J. B. Pritzker
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As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
Ban Ki-moon
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We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.
H. R. McMaster
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My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.
Lady Gregory
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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.
Federica Mogherini
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Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.
Immanuel Kant
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
Flavor Flav
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My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'
Lee Westwood
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Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
Plutarch
