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The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
by John Vinocur (Journalist , French) keywords: allied, any, armies, bravery, disappears, emotions, extraordinary, look, losses, marked, numbers, oratory, out, present, real, red, sense, suffering, time , war It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
by Voltaire (Writer, French , born in 1970) topics: War keywords: forbidden, kill, large, murderers, numbers, punished, sound, therefore, trumpets , unless One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.
by Diane Wakoski (Poet, American , born in 1937) keywords: black, books, bookshelves, claim, every, exist, go, guess, keep, libraries, long, numbers, place, press, print, publisher, respectable, sell, sparrow, true, very, will , wonderful What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
by David Foster Wallace (Writer, American , born in 1962) keywords: discerning, does, extremely, good, large, numbers, realize, supplying, think, tv , want Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
by George Washington (President, American , born in 1732) keywords: army, discipline, esteem, formidable, makes, numbers, small, soul, success , weak Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
by George Washington (President, American , born in 1732) keywords: another, army, discipline, gives, hurtful, more, neglect, nothing, numbers, over, service, superiority , than I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
by John Wayne (Actor, American , born in 1907) keywords: away, country, did, feel, great, indians, keep, land, needed, new, numbers, selfishly, taking, them, themselves, trying, were , wrong Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
by George C. Williams (Scientist, American , born in 1926) keywords: based, capable, circumstances, darwin, empirical, every, favorable, generalizations, go, his, increasing, inherited, numbers, organism, organisms, out, see, strictly, sufficiently, theory, variations, vary , were I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.
by Dontrelle Willis (Athlete, American , born in 1982) keywords: crooked, days, early, especially, establish, go, having, helpful, just, key, know, late, numbers, off, out, park, put, some, sometimes, up, where , year I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.
by Luke Wilson (Actor, American , born in 1971) keywords: add, always, brothers, cards, counting, ever, just, kid, met, numbers, probably, things, think, trying, up, vegas , worst People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.
by Dick Wolf (Producer, American , born in 1946) keywords: after, big, disrupt, down, every, everybody, gone, learned, numbers, own, patterns, peril, since, something, strike, those, time, viewing, year , your You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.
by James Wolfe (Soldier, British , born in 1727) keywords: army, compose, dread, forces, know, numbers, superior, their, too, well , which And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.
by Lee Ann Womack (Musician, American , born in 1966) keywords: because, been, bottom, bunch, commercial, hang, imagine, just, line, love, music, nice, numbers, out, past, play, real, setting, step, where , years By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
by John Woolman (Clergyman, American , born in 1720) keywords: armies, been, breaking, countries, enraged, flourishing, great, grief, laid, many, merciless, more, numbers, perished, poverty, pressed, short, time , waste Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
by Xun Zi (Philosopher , Chinese) keywords: avoid, aware, bravery, death, dog, drink, fearful, food, greater, greedily, having, injury, knowing, neither, nor, numbers, only, over, right, scruples, shame, strength, such, trying , wrong
