Carl Mydans Quotes
We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
Quotes to Explore
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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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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Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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To secure peace is to prepare for war.
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
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I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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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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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
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Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
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When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
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I can't even tell anyone how it feels when I'm acting, I don't mean to say that I don't have to try. But there's something in my heart that explodes, and I feel like I understand. When I'm acting, I feel like so in control and so centered. This is something that I solely get from acting and music. It's like love itself.
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Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
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Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
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The Koch brothers spent millions against me.
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The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.
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We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
