#civil war

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

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A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. ↗

— John Kasich

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Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. ↗

— Henry Knox

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But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them. ↗

— William Odom

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Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war. ↗

— William Odom

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The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible. ↗

— Clive Owen

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Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. ↗

— Sarah Palin

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The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination. ↗

— James Monroe

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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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