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May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. / Former United States Senator
Army
Banner
Defeat
Force
Fraud
Hype
Mean
Midnight
Swallowing
Treachery
United Nations
Vigilant
Armies
Nation
Potent
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If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is not only acceptable but wonderful for Americans to be concerned, outraged, and active.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
Acceptable
Active
Concerned
Congo
Egypt
Example
Oppressed
Outraged
Wonderful
Women Are
Armies
For Example
Join
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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.
John Woolman / Merchant
Time
Country
Flourishing
Grief
Numbers
Poverty
Short Time
Waste
Time Great People
Armies
Breaking
Countries
Enraged
Laid
Merciless
Perished
Pressed
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The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.
Antony Beevor / Historian
Army
Clever
Emotional
Emotional Intelligence
Armies
Comrades
Describe
Rituals
Terms
Soldiers
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In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Driven
Armies
Federal
Hazardous
Ours
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Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
Julian Assange / Journalist
Independence
Army
Block
Cryptography
Internet
States
Armies
Blocks
Building Block
Essential
Organisations
Otherwise
Takes
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For me, in a world full of armies of stylists and makeup artists, what I think truly makes a fashion icon is how a girl dresses when she's off duty and she has to put her own looks together - no small challenge!
Derek Blasberg / Writer
Makeup
Together World Me
Armies
Icon
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem / Journalist
War
Army
Behave
Dirty
Natural
Sisterhood
Status Quo
Armies
Woman
Chooses
Full
Joke
Her
Human Being
Weapon
Quo
She
Status
Treat
Warned
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The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than just finishing off the story, it's like a whole new adventure all of its own. I'm very excited about it.
Richard C. Armitage /
Adventure
Battle
Finishing
Narrative
Peter
Armies
Jackson
Peter Jackson
Stands
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Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
Jared Diamond / Scientist
Army
Defeat
Dozen
Indian
Military
Native
Native American
Troops
Weapons
Advantages
Animals
Armies
Native Americans
Repeatedly
Ridden
Stone
Thousands
Wooden
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
Adam Michnik / Editor
Birth
Confrontation
Consciousness
Crushed
Members
Movement
Pact
Prague
Spring
Warsaw
Armies
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At one time in the history of the Americas, weapons and armies were associated with liberty and independence, and with new opportunities for our peoples. At one time in the history of the Americas, there were liberating armies.
Oscar Arias / Former President Of Costa Rica
Independence
Liberating
One Time
Weapons
Time History New
Americas
Armies
Associated
New Opportunities
Opportunities
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Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building a steel mill, but in 1941, soon after he assembled all the components, Allied armies invaded Iran, and the project had to be abandoned.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
Abandoned
Components
Formidable
Iran
Steel
Allied
Armies
Invaded
Mill
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Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.
Ali Larter / Actress
Dance
Girl
Ants
Cooking
Fun
Growing Up
Mirrors
My Own
Order
Soccer
Sun
Wanted
Boy
Armies
Burn
Idea
Liked
Towards
Off
Help
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The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
Rebecca Harding Davis / Author
War
Army
Destruction
Great Tragedy
Ideas
Individual Life
Misery
No Idea
Tragedy
Absolute
Armies
Entered
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Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.
Rachel Kushner / Writer
Horrific
Liability
Vietnam
Apparently
Armies
Wars
Deaths
Marines
Phased
Thus
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'Outlander' is based on a group of books; there's a slight fantasy element to it, but ours is authentic - we try to stick to historical accuracy as possible. Ours is about a small group of people and a core relationship rather than big armies.
Sam Heughan / Actor
Accuracy
Core
Historical
Armies
Authentic
Element
Ours
Slight
Small Group
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Kings
Birth
Empires
Mistake
Moving
Affections
Life Death Great
Rise
Armies
Depths
Domestic
Joys
Marching
Tragedies
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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.
John Vinocur / Journalist
War
Bravery
Extraordinary
Loss
Numbers
Oratory
Real
Red
Allied
Armies
Disappears
Emotions
War Time Look
Losses
Marked
Present
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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
British
British Empire
Firm
France
Nations
United States Of America
Condition
Armies
Competitive
Empire
Italy
Therefore
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We always think about illegal stuff moving through the border south to north, but people forget that most guns - and we're not talking small guns, we're talking heavy weapons - they get to the cartels and create literally small armies out of the cartels.
Luis Videgaray Caso /
Heavy
Illegal
Not Talking
Weapons
Armies
Border
Guns
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Lech Walesa / Former President Of Poland
Sympathy
Army
Brutal
Frontiers
Invading
Mere
Past
Polish
Silence
Sovereign
Armies
Belong
Centuries
Crossed
Experienced
Hardships
Sovereign State
Succumb
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Armies and former soldiers are working in the field to help protect elephants. Some have suggested staining the ivory; cameras and trackers have even been embedded within the tusk; others have arranged for tusks to be removed pre-emptively by conservationists.
Ben Fogle /
Cameras
Elephants
Embedded
Former
Ivory
Armies
Soldiers
Suggested
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My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor.
Evangeline Lilly / Film Actress
Battle
Cgi
Creation
Five
Moments
Mother Nature
New Zealand
Splendor
Armies
Favorite
Clearly
Parts
Post
Zealand
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You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.
Neil Degrasse Tyson / Astrophysicist
Battle
Cosmos
Armies
Scientists
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
Paddy Considine / Actor
Army
Hate
Small Steps
Steps
Thrust
Young Actors
Armies
Central
Commanding
Deliver
Pull
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They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.
Patty Hearst / Actress
Cells
Members
Planning
Splitting
Scale
Armies
Different Areas
Forming
Recruiting
Smaller
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Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great deal of violence at a level we haven't seen since probably the Korean War or World War II, where you have big armies facing off against one another.
Mark Esper /
Aircraft
Conflict
Fancy
Shooting
Sky
Tanks
Violence
World War Ii
War Great World
Armies
Facing
Great Deal
World War
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Cinemascope has become synonymous with 'epic,' and absolutely if you're shooting armies and certain kinds of vast landscapes, you do want that panoramic canvas to work on. But if you look at art history there's not a whole lot of epic paintings that are in that aspect ratio.
Robert Eggers /
Art History
Canvas
Epic
Art Work History
Armies
Work History Art
Landscapes
Ratio
Synonymous
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
Abraham Lincoln / 16Th U.s. President
Army
Asia
Blue
Drink
Earth
Europe
Force
Military
Ohio
Thousand
Thousand Years
Track
Treasure
Years
Africa
Armies
Own
Chest
Take
Combined
Commander
Could
Ridge
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In China, the rich enslaved the poor, and in England and Scotland and all over the world, one person, through his power and wealth and standing, was able to enslave others. Don't torget, mankind has had wars where we sent armies to enslave other countries; history is full of slavery.
Lorne Greene /
Mankind
Other Countries
Scotland
Armies
History Power World
Enslave
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One of the middle ones in the flock, I was born on July 24, 1857, in the small Jutland town of Fredericia. In 1863, my father was transferred to Randers, another Jutland town, where a year later, at the age of six, I experienced the invasion of the allied Prussian and Austrian armies.
Henrik Pontoppidan /
Invasion
July
Allied
Armies
Experienced
Flock
Transferred
Year Later
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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
Neil Degrasse Tyson / Astrophysicist
Quality
Academic
Aerospace
Labor
Presidential
Quality Time
Unions
Armies
Service
Spent
Wield
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In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies.
Linda Colley / Historian
Benign
Britons
Catholic
Convinced
Excess
Roman Empire
Sea
Armies
Builders
French
Empire
In The Past
Rested
Roman
Spanish
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In the past, war was confined for the most part to men in uniform, but with increased mechanization of armies and the introduction of air forces, there is an increased dependence on the home country, and eight to ten people working at home are now required to keep one man in the fighting line.
Frederick Banting / Medical Doctor
Confined
Dependence
Introduction
War Men Home
Armies
In The Past
Increased
Required
Uniform
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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas / Physician
War
Ants
Capture
Embarrassment
Human Beings
Information
Labour
Television
Use
Like
Child
Much
Alarm
Armies
Beings
Chemical
Confuse
Exchange
Watch
Enemies
Engage
Human
Farm
Raise
Slaves
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When the first armies were formed, combat took courage, which women share equally with men, and strength, which we do not. But though I am only 4 feet 7 inches tall, with a gun in my hand I am the equal of a soldier who's 6 feet 7 - perhaps even at a slight advantage, as I make a smaller target.
Ruth Westheimer / Author
Courage
Advantage
Combat
Equal
Feet
Gun
Inches
Share
Soldier
Target
Strength Men Women
Armies
Formed
Hand
Perhaps
Slight
Smaller
Though
Took
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
Zadie Smith / Novelist
Army
Attributes
Deserve
Enjoy
Epic
Forever
Form
Heavenly
Milton
Rapper
Stuff
Succeed
Taught
Talk
Condition
Armies
Boasting
Rappers
Listing
Terms
Rightly
Understands
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
Rand Paul / United States Senator
Acquire
Dollars
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Military
Police
Build
Armies
Beyond
Compete
Washington
Departments
Essentially
Far
Federal
Gear
Goes
Governments
Small
Help
Local
Municipal
Where
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For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.
Ferdinand Buisson /
National Interests
Understood
Time War Long
Armies
War Time Long
Defending
Identified
Soldiers
Waged
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Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.
Charles Lindbergh / Aviator
Cost
England
Improbable
Responsibility
Shoulders
Allied
Armies
Axis
War Country America
Draw
Entered
Invade
Large
Large Portion
Overwhelm
Paying
Portion
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Shift
Waging
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
W. E. B. Du Bois / Historian
Bottom
Conquest
Nations
Oppression
Stronger
Tinsel
Wicked
Armies
Darker
Weaker
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There is a real need to construct a different Middle East. The Middle East must change because the world has changed. And instead of oppositional armies that are fighting usually one against another, now we have a net of terrorists that are trying to destroy everything. They are not two; they are hundreds.
Shimon Peres / President Of Israel
Middle East
Armies
Construct
Destroy
Hundreds
Net
Terrorists
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No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.
Muqtada Al Sadr / Iraqi Politician
War
Bombing
Conquer
Displacement
Ignite
Invading
Occupation
Rights
Savior
Speak
Terrorism
Torture
Weapons
Armies
Defender
Lethal
Lead
Prohibited
Suffer
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The eight-year-long Algerian war was to bring down six French prime ministers, open the door to de Gaulle - and come close to destroying him, too. The war was the last of the grand-style colonial struggles, but, perhaps more to the point, it was also the first campaign in which poorly equipped Muslim mujahedin licked one of the top Western armies.
Alistair Horne /
Destroying
Ministers
Western
Armies
Campaign
Colonial
Equipped
Muslim
Poorly
Prime Ministers
Struggles
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