"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
-Winston Churchill
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"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.“
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"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
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"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."
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"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times."
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"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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