Anne O'Hare McCormick Quotes
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
Patricia Cornwell
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An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.
Tariq Ali
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
Irving Thalberg
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Samuel Butler
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It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
Frances Wright
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
Walter Cronkite
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Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.
Jack Keane
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One of the most important things the United States did in the aftermath of World War II was to help returning veterans with housing. In 1945, in my home state of Oregon, we established the Veterans Home Loan Program, which for over 60 years has provided more than 300,000 loans. This has changed the lives of Oregon veterans and revitalized communities.
Earl Blumenauer
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We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
Warren Farrell
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It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.
Irving Kristol
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Within the context of life, I am the centrist pragmatist who doesn't even vote; within the context of sports, I am a potential war criminal.
Chuck Klosterman
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
Lucy Stone
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Cursed be he above all othersWho's enslaved by love of money.Money takes the place of brothers,Money takes the place of parents.Money brings us war and slaughter.
Anacreon
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I believe psychics are either kooks or they're tapping into a real power. But it is not, it's not a holy power, it's an evil power. No offense to James Van Praagh, because I think that he has a good heart and he really believes that what he is doing is good, and perhaps you are deceived…
Christine O'Donnell
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I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.
Yi So-Yeon
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The dead don't bother with particulars.
Flannery O'Connor
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If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.
Anthony Robbins
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
