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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.


H. R. McMaster

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DEYTH BANGER For a firm like H&R Block, credibility is of paramount importance. If the H&R Block story becomes fo...
JAMES MCALEXANDER The most important failing is that they divorce the study of the Holocaust from the war,
GERHARD WEINBERG I I I I I I t t t t t t i i i i i i s s s s s s u u u u u u n n n n n n f f f f f f o o o o o o r r ...
TODD COBURN The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Technology is a means, not an end, no matter how brilliant it appears. How we use digital technology...
JOHNPILGER The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT All through school, we are building on those concepts of democracy.
JUDY TRUJILLO Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from.
STEVEN MAGEE Now we want (H&R) Block to make public the right numbers.
BRAD HENSKE Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory...
VINE DELORIA JR. ...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concep...
ERNST MAYR This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone ...
KARL MARLANTES I was very excited about the prospect of being the CEO of a fast-growing technology company, particu...
JOE GALLI You are the ultimate freedom, peace and bliss - free from the trace of desire, fear and doubts.
AMIT RAY That's a hard shot to make. You can win a lot of games in H-O-R-S-E if you can make that shot consis...
GEORGE NESSMAN Talk about fulfilling a campaign promise, ... M*A*S*H.
LARRY GELBART Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my re...
BRIAN KERNIGHAN The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
ALICE WATERS I am glad H&R Block says that revealing social security numbers is against its policy. The question ...
ANDREW JAQUITH We're in the middle of a divorce! D-I-V-O-R-C-E! DEE-VORCE!!!
JOHNNY DEPP I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
JEFF BEZOS 'American Sniper' is a film that erases history, spectacularizes violence, and reduces war a...
HENRY GIROUX A promise against law or duty is void in its own nature
LEGAL MAXIM Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that w...
DANIEL ELLSBERG 'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.
SCOTT ADAMS It's time that Gerry Adams free himself from the IRA. We cannot in Western countries have a politica...
TED KENNEDY Children believe what you promise. They are excited and expectant. Your nature must be like theirs: ...
THEA HARRIS Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victo...
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will no...
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously in...
RUDOLF STEINER War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
GEORGE CLEMENCEAU Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today. Me and Little Joe will be going away. I love you both and thi...
TAMMY WYNETTE Nature is precisely what separates man from God … [R]eligion believes that one day this wall of se...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Its mostly the ideas and concepts that we don't like at first, that eventually become the ideas and ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The Chinese market in terms of valuation isn't cheap. It would be best to shift out of H shares into...
EDDIE WONG [H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
RONALD REAGAN History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap
RONALD REAGAN The idea is to render to viewers that war and peace are sacred concepts.
DAVID GIANFREDI Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is ...
HANNAH ARENDT We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of wa...
LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's no...
EMILIO ESTEVEZ Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that th...
TOM LANTOS Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth ce...
ERIC SCHLOSSER A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's a...
ALICE WATERS Many key concepts concerning the nature of immunity have originated from the very practical need to ...
PETER C. DOHERTY Война - это путь обмана. Поэтому, даже если [ты] способен...
SUN TZU The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI It would be a real mistake for us to think that India will ever influence the world through its outs...
DEEPAK CHOPRA It means that they might not have carried through with their threat, that perhaps all of these pleas...
JACKIE SPINNER War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousnes...
STANISLAV GROF To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforce...
HANNAH ARENDT Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a w...
JAMES MADISON Maturity is not when we start speaking big things.It is when we start understanding the small things...
ARSHDEEP SINGH SAMRALA Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.
JOSEPH PULITZER From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elem...
ABDUS SALAM M-O-T-H-E-R
M is for the million things she gave me,
O means only that she's growing old,
T...
HOWARD JOHNSON I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried abo...
T. D. JAKES We have always declared that war in the name of religion is war against religion, and that we must s...
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW The mind is extremely fast at processing thoughts. Thoughts are gathered through the five senses and...
JACK TYME [Declaring] victory without war ... the belief that India gave up the option of war under American p...
ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory.. For without ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW He was one of those freshman who showed some promise last year. We're not going to win any meets, bu...
ERROL LOGUE updates from Coin about the nature of the bombs. Certainly, the war is still being waged, but as to ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm kind of skeptical about its ultimate usefulness.
JOE WILCOX I can promise you there are going to be some great players that come out of this draft from the fift...
JOE GIBBS So many kids are going more and more into the different focus like technology. That's one of the are...
DIANE MILLER The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness...
DAN SAVAGE Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of de...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at liste...
SAMUEL J. PALMISANO The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that...
HENRY HAZLITT I wanted to highlight the play's political overtones, particularly since our run comes closely after...
ANDREA URICE Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emer...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN For Iran, nuclear technology is a source of national pride and a demonstration of its political and ...
DARYL KIMBALL Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself see...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual righ...
GEORGE NETHERCUTT The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a...
DOUGLAS HAIG Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ...
HAIM SHAPIRA R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from t...
BABYFACE We believe that UMTS TD-CDMA technology holds great promise as a next generation platform for operat...
BARRY WEST The question is what is our solution? Ideally we can find some new technology that can take care of ...
TODD APO The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airpla...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH The problem with a lot of Indian boys and girls is that they do not approach their partner, they are...
APURVA GAGLANI The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea...
JODI PICOULT Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has a name and a nature that redefines our human concepts of Word and ...
TODD COBURN Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can a...
RAMEZ NAAM We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the pe...
JOSE MARTI money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumab...
DAVID GRAEBER We expect that GSM will continue its robust growth, particularly due to its capability to serve both...
EVA BENGUIGUI A new product, technology, or innovation - such as Bitcoin - has the potential to give rise both to ...
PERIANNE BORING Sometimes it sounds like a realistic request from the customer themselves. Sometimes it could be a s...
CAROLINE SEMERDJIAN Personally, I think doing taxes is a big pain in the tushy, so I have them done at Preparation H & R...
KAREN LEE In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important an...
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You have to be careful who you let define your good.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get fo...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's ski...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then yo...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if y...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see our...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a new f...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Miles had sworn his officer's oath to the Emperor less than two weeks ago, puffed with pride at his ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous busin...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Galeni made her smile but not laugh. The lack of any sense of play between them worried Miles; you h...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Vormurtos leaned on the frame with his arms crossed, and failed to move aside.

At Miles's...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gi...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how g...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD He let his head rest against the crisp cloth of her uniform jacket a moment longer. She shifted, her...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Mon Dieu, it’s the little admiral,” she said cheerfully. “What are you doing here?” Ignoring...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The door was locked. The control had been buggered. Miles ripped it apart, shorted it out, and heave...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD How does a kidnapping grab you?” She giggled inexplicably. “Absolutely not!” “Oh, you’re g...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD We’re just good friends,” caroled Miles, and laughed hysterically. He lunged for the comconsole�...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You make yourself sound like a Venn diagram. ‘The set of all sets which are members of themselves�...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Some attitudes couldn't be changed, they just had to be outlived
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD . . . people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me,...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD