#ps

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#curb #deter #force #hiroshima #history

They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy. ↗

— Michael Biehn

#around #chaps #cowboy #everyone #everything

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#breathe #desires #goals #inspirational #leader

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#favor #i #i am #only #perhaps

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#helps #i #i think #larger #lives

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs. ↗

— John Spratt

#american #american taxpayers #american troops #cannot #costs

Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#democrats #fund #groups #us #won

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #equipment #iraqi #iraqi people #liberators

It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly. ↗

— George Crook

#afford #aim #amount #been #greatest

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#games #got #home #i #just