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Letter "W" » War
«There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.»
Author: Alison Lurie
| About:
War
| Keywords:
ashy, begun, cookie, cookies, explosives, odor, odors, scorch, scorched, scorching, smoking room
«There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.»
«There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
War
| Keywords:
advantage, Avoiding, postponed, postpones, postponing
«There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America»
«There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| About:
Civilization,
History,
Tyranny,
War
| Keywords:
aggression, historic, imperfect, inheritance, refusal, situations
«These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| About:
Soldiers,
War
| Keywords:
assistants, colleges, doomsday, expert, lab, second world, Second World War, Soldiers of the, The Lab, The Second world war, warriors, world war
«There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.»
«There never was a good war or a bad peace.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
War
«There was never a good war or a bad peace.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
There was
«They are playing politics with this issue, and sending mixed signals to our troops and the enemy. That is irresponsible.»
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