War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Ambrose Bierce
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Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography
PAUL RODRIGUEZ God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
MARK TWAIN There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” ~ Ambrose ...
J.J. MCAVOY No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT A choice from the gods is as useless as the gods themselves!
KRATOS - GOD OF WAR Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
ROBERT BYRNE Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
RALPH STEADMAN Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a g...
HAMZA YUSUF History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronolo...
JAMES A. GARFIELD The result of these shared experiences was a closeness unknown to all outsiders. Comrades are closer...
STEPHEN E. AMBROSE Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Don’t make war, make posters to teach geography.
LILY CHATTERJEE Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'
ROBERT ORBEN Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they ...
JAMES MCBRIDE In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That'...
ANDREW GREELEY What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't ha...
ROBERT DALLEK 'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people d...
VICTOR LAVALLE Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.
BRUCE WILLIS Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's ho...
JOE BARTON The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. �...
VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is no...
JACK DANGERMOND The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens ...
RICHARD PERLE Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
BILL MAHER Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching t...
MARVIN OLASKY To be chosen as the Beloved of God is something radically different. Instead of excluding others, it...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect...
AVRIL LAVIGNE Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laugh...
GEORGE S. PATTON Never allow anyone to destroy God’s divine purpose within you through their opinion.
DINA ROLLE Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American h...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the Engl...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other...
BILLY GRAHAM It's very important to have the comfort of the regulator in every geography where you operate.
CHANDA KOCHHAR Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism wit...
FLORENCE KING Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism wi...
FLORENCE KING Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty / as a way of enjoying elitism wit...
FLORENCE KING Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the...
BEN SHAPIRO I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of sa...
TAYLOR NEGRON Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispan...
BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL Every war, every plague is God’s judgment. But every man who rises up to stop the wars and the pla...
JOHN KRAMER Success is guaranteed for any person who does the will of God. Success is fulfilling God’s will on...
SUNDAY ADELAJA When you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, Matthew 6:33, there becomes no need to...
PAUL HALBECK God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love o...
RICHARD CECIL We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teachin...
MARCUS GARVEY If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ...
SAINT IGNATIUS Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from gettin...
BILL GATES I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
VICTORIA WOOD These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream...
ROBERT MATSUI You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Pu...
JENNIFER ESPOSITO But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
DABNEY COLEMAN Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The f...
ISABEL ALLENDE The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and...
LYNN FLEWELLING Well, Valek, any new promotions?” the Commander asked
“No. But Maren shows promise. Unfortu...
MARIA V. SNYDER What is preaching teaching and speaking the word of God if we dont live and act the word of God
TYREL D. LINING Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
ERIC NICOL From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help i...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
CARLOS SAAVEDRA LAMAS What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL When African-Americans come to France, the French show them more consideration than they would show ...
EUZHAN PALCY The Americans have their way of talking, their way of dressing, their way of doing things, and we ha...
STORMZY Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of ...
ADAM DAVIDSON It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war...
SALMAN RUSHDIE The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and ob...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR. There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
AMY GRANT Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
ROBERT BYRNE Anyone who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography
ROBERT BYRNE The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN Let your teaching reveal the nature of the kingdom of God
SUNDAY ADELAJA In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.
MICHAEL NOVAK 'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-a...
LIAM HEMSWORTH Americans have perfected the art of reducing complicated truths into formulas and products. We'r...
MIKE YACONELLI It's really live television, the way God meant it to be.
BRUCE VILANCH I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES We’ve gone from a planet ruled by natural geography to political geography to kinetically function...
JAMES SCOTT, SENIOR FELLOW, INSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens na...
JACK KEVORKIAN My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the pr...
COLIN FIRTH As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of th...
CHANG-RAE LEE It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority fo...
MEL MARTINEZ There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of W...
AIDAN GILLEN War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and...
DAVID MAMET A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's ...
TROY POLAMALU I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should...
PAULA DEEN Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is...
LOBSANG TENZIN Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
JOHN FLAVEL At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be e...
DONALD WUERL Maggie thinks it's part of God's plan like God has people murdered and tortured for some inexplicabl...
RJ BLIZZARD By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and A...
ALEXANDER CHEE With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this w...
IRVIN D. YALOM Morality is largely a matter of geography.
ELBERT HUBBARD God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absen...
THOMAS MERTON God is the creator of incredible beauty and all that He envisioned and desired to create, He also de...
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DINESH D'SOUZA Geography is destiny.
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AMBROSE BIERCE Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
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