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«If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
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charge, corporate, dominate, executives, Executive power, in charge, owners, patrol, patrolling, patrols, press, soldiers, The Streets
«Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?»
«A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers»
«And they always find in archeology ?a series of small walls.? Every time, a series of small walls. Everywhere you go. ?We?ve found a series of small walls, we?re very excited? I think this proves they had walls in olden days. They were very small, and? a series of small wall people.? And then someone comes along, very learned, with glasses, ?Of course, the king and queen entertained here? 1,500 courtiers, and there were soldiers, 20,000 soldiers in this room, and elephants dancing hopscotch over there? A mad fiddler in this room, playing the banjo, buttocks and aqueducts into a heater?? And you?re just watching, and going, ?You?re making this up, mate! You?re just pointing at a series of small walls, going, ?there, there? Tutankhamen playing banjo in there?? Don?t know if it?s true.?»
Author: Eddie Izzard
(Actor, Comedian)
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aqueducts, archeology, banjo, buttocks, courtier, courtiers, elephants, entertained, excited, fiddler, fiddlers, glasses, heater, hopscotch, Kings and Queens, King and Queen, mate, olden, pointing, proves, queen, series, soldiers, There There, the king, Tutankhamen
«'Tis Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.»
«History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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History
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account, an account, brought, brought about, events, knaves, mostly, rulers, soldiers, unimportant
«Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
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as soldiers, iron, ironed, ironing, irons, nailed, nailing, nails, soldiered, soldiering, soldiers, Soldiers of the, The Nails, waste
«Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war»
«If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
disinclined, distaste, longevity, overburden, overburdened, riches, soldiers, unduly
«Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.»
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