The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.
Arleigh Burke
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The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.
ARLEIGH BURKE The major deterrent [to war] is in a man's mind.
ARLEIGH BURKE is going to be a major deterrent.
JOSE CANSECO I think it would be a major deterrent to vandalism and graffiti.
MIKE SIMPSON The question that comes to my mind is, how much of a deterrent is it?
DAVID SCHNEIDER Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
RALPH STEADMAN There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.
ARLEIGH BURKE Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
ARLEIGH BURKE A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
RUDYARD KIPLING A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
OLIVER HERFORD Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
CAROLYN WELLS When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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NNEDI OKORAFOR Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
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ISAIAH WASHINGTON This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals.
JIM ARMSTRONG Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
EDWARD STEICHEN There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the thi...
SUZANNE COLLINS It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an u...
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy i...
DAWN POWELL Ego is the man, the male image. Ego is the phallic symbol, the helmet, the gun. The man behind the g...
CHARLES MANSON The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
ARTHUR KOESTLER A man who cannot decide whether or not to pull the trigger, wages war against only himself.
DAVE FRANCIS I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's ho...
OPRAH WINFREY 'Tempting the Best Man' centers around Madison Daniels, who's had a major crush on her b...
JENNIFER ARMENTROUT My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in '...
CELIA IMRIE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I ...
JERRY SPINELLI I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny an...
MELISSA ROSENBERG It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
BUDDHA Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk...
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JOHN CALVIN 'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World W...
DINESH D'SOUZA It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.
BRYAN CRANSTON You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR This is going to affect the whole town, West Burke as well as East Burke. I don't think people reali...
CATHI FEELEY I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's li...
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
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SHIMON PERES A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki...
A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY Vigilance is a deterrent to terrorist activity.
ASA HUTCHINSON If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibili...
SHUNRYU SUZUKI There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one...
ALAN PATON 'Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind' is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs...
KELLIE PICKLER The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON 'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-a...
LIAM HEMSWORTH I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I w...
ZIG ZIGLAR This is the first major turnaround in development assistance since World War II.
ROBERT ORR If the construction ever ended, we'd be in good shape. The construction blocked us up. We're a super...
DENNIS GILLIAM There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected throu...
YOUSUF KARSH The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to t...
ELIHU ROOT There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
MAHATMA GANDHI My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
JACK SCALIA When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interestin...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
FRIEDA LAWRENCE A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of vio...
BETTY WILLIAMS War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny ...
AGYNESS DEYN Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also aga...
SAUL BELLOW Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's...
MICHAEL SCHEUER A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
SIR JAMES GLOVER A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
LORD MORAN This is a major, major act of war and act of terrorism that will have widespread economic consequenc...
JEREMY SIEGEL To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career ...
ADAM DEREK SCOTT I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect...
AVRIL LAVIGNE Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
SUN TZU Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterren...
MIKE QUIGLEY He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the...
OMAR SHARIF Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and ...
LANA TURNER The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to sp...
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CORNEL WEST They are thinking small, man. This is a major, major deal.
RAY NAGIN Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
ELIE WIESEL It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war...
SALMAN RUSHDIE The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use ...
PETER T. KING I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wou...
GARRY TRUDEAU In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
SHUNRYU SUZUKI War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and...
DAVID MAMET Gosh, I think faith is a wonderful thing. And I even think religion's a wonderful thing. I know ...
KELSEY GRAMMER The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military ...
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THOMAS CARLYLE Bear spray is a very good deterrent.
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EDMUND BURKE It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law,
according to the golden mete-wand...
EDMUND BURKE The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
EDMUND BURKE There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.
EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
EDMUND BURKE But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
EDMUND BURKE What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience
to the will of the Sovereign of th...
EDMUND BURKE The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic e...
EDMUND BURKE The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in
England.
EDMUND BURKE