William S. Cohen Quotes
The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.
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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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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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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.
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Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.
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Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
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War loves to seek its victims in the young.
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I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.
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May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.
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Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.
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The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.
