William Osler Quotes
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
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What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
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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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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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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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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
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Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.
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I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.
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I think I'm a face of a franchise. I can make an impact.
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Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there
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Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.