#war

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#between #born #combination #contradiction #first

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#depression #during #fortune #good #good fortune

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. ↗

— Anita Diament

#denver #early #early childhood #family #i

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me. ↗

— Princess Diana

#aware #died #i #looking #loved

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. ↗

— William J. Perry

#breakthroughs #changing #driven #face #how

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#book #chattering #fiction #i #i think

After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist. ↗

— Alex Scarrow

#eternal-war #true #art

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#birth #common #cowards #death #escape

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#after #age #back #being #come

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#certainly #dad #flying #inspiration #now