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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#blow #competitors #debt #energy #had

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. ↗

— Beverly Sills

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A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all. ↗

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#lasting #lasting peace #peace #perhaps #secured

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to? ↗

— Dave Sim

#been #cannot #did #even #exist

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins. ↗

— Carly Simon

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The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end. ↗

— Rob Simmons

#end #hard #hard work #investment #must