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But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.


Erwin Rommel


#commander #courage #expediency #goes #insisted

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.


Marian Anderson


#bear #behind #easier #follow #i

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.


Henry Campbell-Bannerman


#began #century #desire #done #earth

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.


Cathy Guisewite


#comic #comic strip #drawings #enjoy #imagine

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.


Virginia Woolf


#between #cannot #country #fighting #gratify

In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.


John Doolittle


#democrats #efforts #facts #faith #forth

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.


Todd Gitlin


#believe #between #deserves #distinction #fuzzy

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.


Henry Louis Gates


#case #escape #hard #insists #poverty

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.


Robert B. Laughlin


#beginning #day #first #gets #habit

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.


Eric Liu


#after #ate #bar #bars #big