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Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

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Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#enthusiasm #exultation #few #had #hours

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#after #apart #arm #barrels #behind

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

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I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#affecting #experienced #expressive #found #general

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#canadian #different #generic #illustration #style

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day. ↗

— Bill Kristol

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In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#because #been #capital #even #example

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

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It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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