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“General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.”

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Author:Jim Talent

“Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.”

Knows Men Art States Government Care Cities Know How Wall Stones Woods Take Care Artisans

Author:John Quincy Adams

“The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.”

Made States Government Perfect Stones Bases Independent Equality Corners Made It Sovereign

Book:Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

Source: Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

“The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea.”

People States Today Given Poor Sea Demand Stones Jew Territory Palestinian Explosives

Author:Meir Kahane

“Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors ... had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.”

Source: Fifty Years in the Church of Rome: The Life Story of Pastor Chiniquy, who was for Twenty-five Years a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church

“The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.”

Source: Essays, English and American

“Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt; Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.”

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Book:The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author

Source: The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author

“Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.”

Ifs Wells May States Friendship Violence Broken Stones Let Me Metaphor Accidents Former Heat Trusted Hopelessness Flawed Restoring Coarse Vases Precious Stones

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq, he didn't expect President Bush to 'f--- it up as badly as he did.' Here's some breaking news, tomorrow former Vice President Al Gore expected to endorse Howard Dean as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States - and you thought John Kerry was using four letter words before! Actually, to John Kerry, Dean is a four letter word.”

“In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.”

“No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.”

Two States Bigs Stones Atoms Metals Electrons Why Me

Author:Paul Ehrenfest

“I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.”

Thinking World States Cities Streets Stones Rebel Cities In The World Leviathan

Book:Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Source: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

“Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.”

People Want Trying States Whole Body Bigs Form Used Names United United States Happened Crime Like You Concerned Stones Thick Ashes Cover Ups Burial Granite Chisels Cremation

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I'm in a state of learning, and I don't have any set-in-stone ideas about what shows or even what eras I want to pursue.”

Want Ideas States Shows Stones Pursue Eras

Author:Dick Latvala

“An interesting example is that the worst woman in the book, who is so cruel and violent, is the sorceress in "The Prince of the Black Islands." She's a beautiful young woman, and she has turned her husband into stone from the waist down. A traveling sultan finds him, in his dreadful state, and the man petrified from the waist down tells his sad story...how his wife comes every afternoon and beats him until the blood runs down. She's just unwontedly, arbitrarily cruel.”

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Author:Marina Warner

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!”

Ifs May States Memories Cities Hair Stones Blind Prophet Falsehood Worn Oblivion Maids Swerve Upbraid Characterless

Book:Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

“I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.”

Feels Stills States Car Stones Motor Millionaire Poisoning Motor Cars

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.”

Ifs Made States Easy Alive Stones I'm Alive Bell Jar

Book:Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy

Source: Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy

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