Allan Massie Quotes
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Allan Massie
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
F. W. de Klerk
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
Hans Rosling
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
C. L. R. James
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
Fionn Whitehead
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You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
Hal Holbrook
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I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
Mandy Patinkin
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
Olivia Thirlby
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If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
Walter Cronkite
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The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
J. August Richards
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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Allan Massie