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“A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.”

Men Waste Great Men Combat Mania

Author:Andre Maurois

“I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.”

People Ifs Ends Equal Defeat Oneself Contrary Communism Combat Disagree Fascism Fanatics Fanaticism

Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950

“Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.”

“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”

Men War Humanity Passion Peace Leadership Military Easier Labor Direct Patience Patient Combat Antiwar Stirring Peacemaking Being At Peace Achieving Peace Bringing Peace

Author:Andre Gide

“Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.”

Mother Born Son Baby Glasses Cease Combat Jars Mother And Son

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007 - and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.”

Needs States Bigs Three Example Wind Months Demand Percent Plant Nuclear Cells Combat Coal Utility Integrated Supplies Variables Backup Supply And Demand Nuclear Plants Solar Cells

Author:Amory Lovins

“Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.”

Order Given Lines Levels Support Pieces Effects Capacity Remove Combat Officers Units Objections Cannons Fray Grenade Fodder

Author:Ward Churchill

“Russia had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding in southeastern Ukraine. We didn't want any tanks, any nationalist combat units or people with extreme views armed with automatic weapons.”

People Way Want Order Views Situation Weapons Extremes Russia Combat Units Tanks Ukraine Unfolding Crimea Automatic Weapons

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we [America] did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism - and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism.”

World Needs Believe Stills War Helping America Interest Security Right Now Baseball Threat Defeat Iraq Terrorism Primaries Combat Allies Bats National Security Beehives

Author:Jerry Springer

“Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.”

War Impossible Perception Combat Thrust

Book:War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

Source: War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

“The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call.”

Source: Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

“It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.”

Heart Joy Victory Noble Combat

Author:Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert

“What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.”

World Way Trying Humans War Fighting Impossible Happenings Our World Combat Contemplating Discernment Comprehension Colossal Girth

Author:Arundhati Roy

“To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.”

Want Mean Ends Suffering Evil Economics Crisis Productions Credit Cures Deception Combat Expansion Severe Banking Procedures Very Mean Misdirection

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority to military affairs, and defends the country, the revolution and socialism and dynamically pushes ahead with overall socialist construction by dint of the revolutionary mettle and combat capabilities of the People's Army.”

People Giving Country Party Military Revolution Army Affair Priorities Socialism Revolutionary Combat Construction Capability Socialist Top Priorities Mettle

Author:Kim Jong Il

“Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.”

Years Self Weapons Capacity Protection Fifty Combat Self Control Cigar

Author:Sigmund Freud

“There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat”

Way Firsts Walking Pressure Golf Combat Jungle Tees

Author:Larry Nelson

“My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that the social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells.”

Real Social Views Atheism Source Morality Ethics Claims Aim Cancer Positive Atheism Command Chiefs Cells Obedience Impulse Length Combat Allegiance Sanctions

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there and he says to me in this ad, until you have the guts to call me a phony soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service. You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, and then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad, to walk into as many people as he can walk into.”

People Knows Said Use Faces Lying Walks Media Stupid Tvs Soldier Iraq Wounds Guts Call Me Combat Ads Veteran Belts Hateful Phony Valiant Telling Lies Combat Veterans Blatant Lies

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If the question is still asked why National Socialism combats the Jewish element in Germany so fanatically, the answer can only be, because National Socialism wishes to establish a real community of the people. Since we are National Socialists, we cannot permit an alien race to impose itself upon our working people as their leaders.”

People Ifs Stills Real Wish Community Answers Race Leader Elements Socialism Aliens Germany Permit Combat

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.”

Hands Hell Missions Satan Demon Gates Combat Sociology Confrontation Anthropology Comparative Religion Gates Of Hell

Author:K.P. Yohannan

“The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.”

Source: Bright Shiny Morning

“Maybe it's not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it's the very presence of one thing - light or darkness - that necessitates the existence of the other. Think about it, people couldn't become legendary heroes if they hadn't first done something to combat darkness. Doctors could do no good if there weren't diseases for them to treat.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Done Light Existence Darkness Clear Cutting One Thing Hero Disease Doctors Treats Combat Legendary

Book:Embrace

Source: Embrace

“Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.”

Men May Doe Reason Feelings Understanding Challenges Crime Shapes Claims Suicide Fortune Species Superiors Combat Heroism Justified True Hero

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.”

Ifs Men Should Soul Age Night Song Fall Tears He Man Poet Sorrow Fame Combat Loved Ones Shed Consumed Weeping Dreary Forsaken Renowned

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.”

Song Acting Fire Air Notes Rage Combat Rant Fugue Trill

Book:The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison: Collated with the Best Editions

Source: The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison: Collated with the Best Editions

“It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.”

Men Wells Reason Shows Feelings Might Impossible Understood Argument Pressure Fingers Spread Resistance Enthusiasm Distinction Endeavor Combat Elude

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces

“Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.”

Five Cutting Tree Lays Soldier Strikes Wit Branches Necks Courageous Resolution Customs Combat Deliberation Hydra

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although we be but two. Great is the strength of feeble arms combined, And we can combat even with the brave.”

Men Two War Causes Air Arms Brave Strive Quitting Combat

Author:Homer

“In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.”

“[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.”

Men Whole Form Instinct Extremes Noise Glorious Combat Warfare Masculinity Initials Ostentation Maleness

Book:Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

Source: Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

“If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”

Ifs Mean Problem Female Males Driven Staying Sexism Combat Hunts Infection Giraffe

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.”

Truth Is Weak Prejudice Combat

Book:Henrietta: Embellished with superb engravings

Source: Henrietta: Embellished with superb engravings

“One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western civilization is to concentrate upon and increase the solidarity of the family. This solidarity begins with a child at the mother's breast.”

Way Children Helping Mother Civilization Increase Western Wave Currents One Way Breasts Combat Solidarity Western Civilization

Author:Grace Kelly

“If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.”

Ifs World Health Amount Exercise Eating Combat

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.”

Country Effort Poverty Crime Keys South Climate Climate Change East Organized Reports Combat Cents Asia Amazon Tropical Deforestation Organized Crime East Asia Logging

Author:Achim Steiner

“The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.”

Firsts Values Term Ought Essentials Economics Ideology Combat Economist

Book:Economic philosophy

Source: Economic philosophy

“The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces.”

Country Government Might Force Party Concern Raises Constant Communist Combat Soviet Display Readiness Armed Forces Communist Party

Author:Andrei Grechko

“The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the combat readiness of the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear forces, the United States would not be able to deal a crippling blow to the socialist countries. The aggressor will not be able to evade an all-crushing retaliatory strike.”

“Speaker John Boehner complained that Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military into combat in Libya without clearly defining the mission to the American people and Congress. See, apparently, you're only allowed to do that when invading Iraq.”

People Military Congress Iraq Missions Barack Combat Speakers Defining Libya Invading Invading Iraq

Author:Jay Leno

“Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.”

Men War Whole Individual Lines Population Organized Combat Slaughter Opposing Trenches Between The Lines

Book:Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology

Source: Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology

“We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been widespread before the Finnish campaign.”

Deals Arms Fundamentals Depth Campaigns Combat Oblivion Tactics Mobile Finnish

Author:Sergey Biryuzov

“I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'.”

Men Problem Hands Age Cutting Violence Authority Errors University Solve Mathematical Executives Illegal Combat Diamond Knots Proceeding Mathematical Problems

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.”

Running Air Special British Combat

Author:Bear Grylls

“I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.”

Fighting Stage Scene Theater Chicago Combat Choreographers

Author:Nick Offerman

“The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.”

Equal Resolution Combat Vehemence Vacillation

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.”

Moving Lost Sea Fields Wind Wings Rage Combat Coast

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

“My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'”

Men Shows He Man My Favorite Combat

Author:Stephen Lang

“The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus.”

Two History Merit Combat Officers Distinguished Roman Empire Venus Prowess Bacchus

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.”

Firsts Certain Fighting Religious Views Moral Generations Habit Demand Prejudice Circles Conception Combat Prostitution Prerequisites Mein Kampf Old Habits Syphilis

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf