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The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.


Donald Rumsfeld


#civilian #commander-in-chief #control #country #defense

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.


Bertrand Russell


#civilised #even #great #importance #matter

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.


Charles Marion Russell


#civilization #destroys #pioneer #things

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.


Paul Ryan


#best #civil #civil society #displace #economic

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.


William Safire


#basis #civilized #delight #how #knowing

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.


Antoine de Saint-Exupery


#civilization #men #provided #required #them

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.


Antoine de Saint-Exupery


#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.


Abdus Salam


#cycles #gone #history #like #respect

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.


Justin Sane


#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #demonstrated #feminist

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.


John Ralston Saul


#armaments #civil #economy #extremely #fighting






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