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Quotations by Subject: War (33 quotes)

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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.: Napoleon Hill
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), "Contact"
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), The Crazy Ape
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.: Donald E. Knuth (1938 - )
In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God.: James Agee (1909 - 1955), Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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