“ Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun. ”
- Steady Eddy- Copy
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“ Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction. ”
- Sean O’Casey- Copy
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“ The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. ”
- Jonathan Glancey- Copy
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“ Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself for lack Of somebody to hew and hack. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Whether we find weapons or we don't find weapons, the allegations, with certainty, that there were weapons of mass destruction, imminently available and would be used by Saddam Hussein, was based on intelligence which seems to me... was exaggerated. Nothing I saw on this trip changed my view of the troubling nature of that evidence. ”
- Carl Levin- Copy
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“ There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread! ”
- George Rogers Clark- Copy
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“ The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me. ”
- George Rogers Clark- Copy
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“ Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams — Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance… ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
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“ Einstein was horrified by World War I. He devoted a lot of time to thinking and worrying about it. He went to this conference in Geneva. He thought they were discussing disarmament, to do away with the weapons of war and therefore to prevent war. Instead, he found these representatives of various countries discussing what kinds of weapons would be suitable and what kind of weapons needed to be prohibited… ”
- Howard Zinn- Copy
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“ Well, I'm obviously disappointed. I thought there were I thought we'd find weapons of mass destruction, as did the world...On the other hand, I believe we made the right decision because Saddam Hussein was not only a tyrant, but he was a threat to world peace… ”
- Laura Bush- Copy
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“ As far as I know, following the tragedies that led to 9/11, following the mistakes that were made on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, no one has been fired, no one has been admonished, no one has been demoted. (Former CIA Director) George Tenet fell on his sword, but as far as I know that's about it. ”
- Evan Bayh- Copy
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“ When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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“ There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. ”
- Frederika Bremer- Copy
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“ Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving? ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
- 940
“ They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. ”
- The Book of Joshua- Copy
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“ Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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