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One bad general is worth two good ones. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. — Douglas Feith

When you want something, all the Universe conspires to helping you achieve it.
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Just ask.. — Victoria Aldridge Washuk

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third. — Robert Jordan

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way. — George W. Bush

I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan. — Andrew Cherng

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. — James Meade

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events. — Honore De Balzac

I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal. — Ralph Webster

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy. — Thomas S. Power

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world ... And something sooner or later has to give. — Ken Wilber

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements. — David Ayer

War, for most women, is about the destiny of one person. For me, it became three - the one I feared was dead, and the two of you who now are. — Phyllis Edgerly Ring

War, technology, and social progress; it seemed that the second two always came with the first. The NACA's work - more intense and — Margot Lee Shetterly

Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

If the afterlife really is a big war," Kaladin said, "then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep. — Brandon Sanderson

This is the second Simply Red song on this tape. One's unforgivable. Two's a war crime. Can I fast-forward? — Nick Hornby

Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen. — Shaun Hick

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple. — Ralph Webster

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget. — Merrill McPeak

I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better. — Steven Pressfield

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. — Noam Chomsky

The two fingered peace sign always fascinated me, because just in a turn of the hand it turns into war. — Me

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. — Sarah Sundin

Heat and dryness frightens me,
like skeletal shapes of war,
two of them look doomed
and challenge the peace blazing. — J.M.K. Walkow

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny. — Neil Simon

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late. — Douglas MacArthur

Two things greater than all the things are.On is love and the other is war. — Socrates

We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of alien, minority interests. — George Lincoln Rockwell

Golden Arches theory: no two countries with a McDonald's have ever fought in a war. — Steven Pinker

Love and war are two different battlefields. — Pierce Brown

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. — McGeorge Bundy

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. — Carl Sagan

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. — Thomas Hobbes

Peace is nothing but the confusion between two wars — Peyton J Glenn

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom. — James T. Shotwell

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war. — Mahatma Gandhi

But time and surprise are the two most vital elements in war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways
through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war. — Kenneth Kaunda

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however, — Deborah Harkness

From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945. — Sophal Ear

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades. — Ian Bremmer

May I ask what role you envision for the Jedi in this war
Two words Skywalker. None whatsoever.

Luke Rodan — Walter Jon Williams

What happens when two people of terrible pride fall for each other?
Terrible things.
Destruction, Chason, Pain. Sorrow.
War. — R.K. Lilley

You have no idea what it is like to watch two blind people fighting. Fighting has always been, more or less, a form of blindness. — Jose Saramago

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. — Douglas Hurd

I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn miracle. — Kevin Powers

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing. — Kuroda Nagamasa

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty. — Oscar Arias

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice. — Frank Knox

remember the two signatures of modern war: (1) You never win, exactly; you claim victory. (2) Perception is paramount. — Mark Bowden

Sometimes war takes an arm, or an eye, or it takes two legs from us, but above all the war takes our belief in humanity away from us! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs. — Fredrik Bajer

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy. — William Graham Sumner

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? — Joseph Addison

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war. — J.G. Ballard

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes. — Edward Everett

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. — Clint Eastwood

In love there are two evils: war and peace. — Horace

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. — Charles Farrar Browne

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. — Neil Sheehan

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments. — Girdhar Joshi

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. — Thomas Jefferson

From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies. — George Lucas

To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money. — Megan Whalen Turner

War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end. — Mitch Rowland

There are two sides to any war-game, Your Highness, and the other side is trying to win, too. — David Weber

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really. — David Bailey

In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one. — Catherine M. Wilson

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war. — Gavin Hood

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace. — John C. Calhoun

Lovely morning, World War Two. — Thomas Pynchon

Esau has always been at war with Jacob. The struggle that began in their mother's womb between two natured peoples (or nations) continues today. — Jerry Hannah

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. — Condoleezza Rice

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed. — Agatha Christie

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. — Jan Karon

It felt like a war between two endless things, between a bottomless chasm and a running river. — Naomi Novik

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war. — John Pilger

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness. — Katherine Paterson

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. — Steve Sheinkin

That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand. — Christopher Isherwood

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another. — Plato

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'. — Evan Daugherty

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world. — H.L. Mencken

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war. — Mao Zedong

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars. — Erica Jong

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's — Thomas L. Friedman

Love is a war of lightning,
and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. — Pablo Neruda

We're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell. — Ruta Sepetys

He supposed that they were part of an amazing new phase of World War Two. It was all right with him. Everything was pretty much all right with Billy. — Kurt Vonnegut

If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two words: The Ladies. — Dana Gould

And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along. — Betty Hill

At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder.
At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war. — William Goldman

Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq. — Dick Cheney

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party. — Ulysses S. Grant

What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war. — Nadia Hashimi

Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland. — Ken Follett

Who was Hitler" demanded little Tracy
"He was this bloke in World War Two" explained Ben. — Jackie French