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• To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Peace, Giving

  "Fragment of a Speech" ca. 18 May 1858.

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• Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Fear, Moving, Home

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.27, J.S. Sanders Books

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• We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, War, Gdp

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• A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

  Joseph Conrad

  Space, Flying, Destruction

  Lord Jim ch. 15 (1900)

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• I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

  Clara Barton

  Soldier, Dodging Bullets, Doe

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• I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?

  Otto Dix

  Fall, Pacifist, Wanted

  "Otto Dix, 1891-1969", exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Gallery, 1992, pp. 17 - 18; as cited by Roy Forward, in "Education resource material: beauty, truth and goodness in Dix's War", p. 9,

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• Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

  Georg Brandes

  Hot, Poor, Type

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.

  Peter Hain

  Party, Fighting, Government

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• What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

  Edward Tufte

  Goal, Narrative, Lists

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• When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Growing Up, War, Fighting

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

  Beck

  Airplane, Play, Japan

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• Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

  Dean Acheson

  Military, Self, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Alcohol, Enemy, Alcohol And Life

  "Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee". Book by John William Jones, 1874.

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• Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Peace, Voting

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.169, Stanford University Press

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• At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Lying, Firsts

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• I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

  Jackie Gleason

  Week, Made, My Own

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• The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

  Norman Parkinson

  Heart, Cameras, Assassins

  1984 In the NewYorker,10 Dec.

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• There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

  Umberto Eco

  Sports, Squash, Flying

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• Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fire, Numbers, Balls

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• Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

  Yasser Arafat

  Thinking, Uprising, Giving

  Daily Telegraph, January 19, 1989.

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• Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Goal, Shooting

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• I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Thinking, Literature

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• I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Fun, Sweat, Shy

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• It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

  Malcolm X

  Liberty, Ballots

  Malcolm X (1992). “Malcolm X Speaks Out”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Successful, Men

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2829, Modern Library

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