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Letter "W" » warring
«Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.»
Author: Allan Massie
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«Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
battle, battled, Battle of the, battling, Begin, end, growing, In Love and War, On War, seem, The War of the, The Way, war, warring
«I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.»
Author: Sir George Porter
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«One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.»
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
(Civil-Rights Leader, Scholar, Sociologist)
| About:
African American
| Keywords:
an American, asunder, dogged, Negro, strivings, torn, unreconciled, warring
«For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: / But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.»
«For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
accompanied, barbarous, claims, death instinct, death penalty, equilibrium, instincts, in check, penalty, refinements, warring, war crime
«I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«I don't see how you can lead this country to succeed in Iraq if you say wrong war, wrong time, wrong place.?What message does that send our troops??What message does that send to our allies? What message does that send the Iraqis?»
«All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
aspiring, breasts, elements, Four elements, framed, regiment, regimented, warring
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