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I knew from history that war comes with frightening regularity, often fought over the same ground and similar causes as previous conflicts.


Stanley A. McChrystal

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STANLEY KUBRICK God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let H...
CHARLES STANLEY God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fe...
CHARLES STANLEY It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
STANLEY CLARKE When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized...
STANLEY HAUERWAS The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such...
STANLEY DONEN The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and decla...
CHARLES STANLEY The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's...
CHARLES STANLEY The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than...
PAUL STANLEY I don't like not being busy.
STANLEY TUCCI I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the ba...
STANLEY KUBRICK Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
STANLEY HOROWITZ The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the worl...
STANLEY HAUERWAS One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out t...
STANLEY HAUERWAS American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of ...
CHARLES STANLEY Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying...
STANLEY KUBRICK The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate...
STANLEY HAUERWAS It helps me work on maybe moving the ball around a little bit as opposed to trying to throw strikes....
BRITTANY STANLEY It's giving us more experience. It helps us believe in each other.
BRITTANY STANLEY You don't realize what you take for granted. When you're surrounded [by devastation], it's a differe...
BRITTANY STANLEY This project is open to everyone on campus. We're trying to get volunteers to sign up and go over sp...
BRITTANY STANLEY We're trying to get funding from as many sources as possible.
BRITTANY STANLEY It's hard to pitch this much early in the year but by the end of the season, I'll be used to it.
BRITTANY STANLEY We're looking to go somewhere in or near New Orleans. We would like to go deeper into Louisiana.
BRITTANY STANLEY Everything we do really stems from being record collectors rather than musicians. I suppose that's w...
BOB STANLEY We got word that they're looting on Jefferson Highway, which is our neighborhood. We've quit worryin...
BOB STANLEY nothing to complain about, and a lot to be thankful for.
BOB STANLEY I knew him a lot of years in grade school,
BOB STANLEY They are struggling a little in the big leagues and they are trying to get guys to the higher level ...
BOB STANLEY How he can even think about saying that, with what was going on that night, tells me it was on his m...
BOB STANLEY He relies mostly on his fastball and slider. He has a curve and a change-up, but doesn't get a chanc...
BOB STANLEY We're very excited about Rick because he brings a wealth of experience and is very high on fundament...
BOB STANLEY Johnny Pesky always said I would rather be lucky than good. We were lucky against California and not...
BOB STANLEY I felt a part of it in some ways, not as a teammate, but as a former player who spent his whole care...
BOB STANLEY I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with deno...
STANLEY HAUERWAS I think ageing demographics is a bigger issue in China than people think. And the problems it create...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace an...
CHARLES STANLEY You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number...
ANDY STANLEY Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourse...
ANDY STANLEY