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• The abuse of prisoners hurts America's cause in the war on terror, endangers US service members who might be captured by the enemy, and is anathema to the values Americans have held dear for generations.

  John McCain

  Hurt, War, America

  "Above the rule of law" by Sidney Blumenthal, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2005.

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• Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Cameras, Arms

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• No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.

  Simon Roberts

  Photography, Agonizing, Way

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• All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

  Vera Brittain

  Peace, Hate, Order

  "What Can We Do In Wartime?", September 9, 1939.

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• The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].

  John S. Mosby

  Military, Army, Men

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• In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Creativity, Past

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• Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

  Gary Snyder

  Beautiful, Grandmother, Men

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• My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.

  George S. Patton

  Fighting, Army, Men

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Games, Saint

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.61, Arcade Publishing

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• There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.' The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Essence, Legacy

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• Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

  John P. Kotter

  Communication, Heart, Listening To Others

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• These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Soldier

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• We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Coward

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• We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . . Their powerful gospel put an end to such barbaric evils as infanticide and bloody gladiatorial contests. Finally, they captured the Roman Empire for Jesus Christ.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

  Stephen Covey

  Volleyball, Thinking, Essence

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• My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial place like a set or a photo call but rather captured outdoors in nature, where she took my breath away. When those moments surface, I miss her the most.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges - ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Air, Ions

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• Blay didn’t shake the hand that was offered. He reached over, took a hold of the fighter’s face, and drew Qhuinn in for a kiss. It was supposed to be only a split-seconder— like their lips were the ones doing the handshake thing. When he went to pull back, though, Qhuinn captured him, and held him in place. Their mouths met again… and again… and once more, their heads tilting to the sides, the contact lingering. “You’re welcome,” Blay said roughly. Then he smiled a little. “Can’t say it was all a pleasure, though.

  J.R. Ward

  Kissing, Hands, Mouths

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• Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Machines, Matter

  Michio Kaku (1999). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.94, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight.

  Mao Zedong

  Sight, Giving, Soldier

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• The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.

  Mao Zedong

  Army, Soldier, Down And

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes (1992). “Mao's Road to Power: From the Jinggangshan to the establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930”, p.98, M.E. Sharpe

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• It is sufficient to estimate the enemy situation correctly and to concentrate your strength to capture him. There is no more to it than this. He who lacks foresight and underestimates his enemy will surely be captured by him.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Underestimate, Capture

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• The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians.

  Alberto Gonzales

  War, Order, Atrocities

  "Decision Re Application of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War to the Conflict with Al Qaeda and the Taliban". Memorandum for the President, August 25, 2010.

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• The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. These are people that were captured in the battlefield of Afghanistan or rounded up as part of the Al Qaeda network. We've already screened the detainees there and released a number, sent them back to their home countries. But what's left is hard core.

  Dick Cheney

  Country, Mean, Home

  "Guantánamo Detainees Are 'Bad People', Says Cheney". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• Saddam was tranquillised when captured ... He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.

  Raghad Hussein

  Powerful, Lions, Would Be

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