G.A. Henty Quotes
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
Rachel Nichols -
Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
Fidel Castro -
The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
Barack Obama -
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken -
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
Ferdinand Foch -
I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
Yves Behar
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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
Imelda Staunton -
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza -
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Babasaheb -
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
Karl Rove -
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar N. Bradley -
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel -
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 -
Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I really believe in the power of music.
Abigail Washburn -
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
Ban Ki-moon
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The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.
Nadar -
I like to box. It's a great release.
Jeremy Piven -
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
Doris Kearns Goodwin -
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne Dyer -
When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.
Maeve Binchy -
It is a war of religion as much as a war for power.
G.A. Henty