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• Skyline is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.

  Eric Balfour

  Jobs, Creating, Interesting

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• With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the ground, any belligerent move by Saddam against a neighbor would be suicidal....If Iraq does possess such concealed weapons, as is quite likely, Saddam would use them only in the most extreme circumstances, in the face of an invasion of Iraq, when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Team, Moving

  "Carter: Iraq threat does not justify war", www.cnn.com. January 31, 2003.

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• If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Isis, Iraq, Ifs

  "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

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• It is not just the vulgar, premature bawdiness of pro-war triumphalists which I find revolting. It is that they accuse anti-war people of being uncaring about the people of Iraq, and the lack of concern that these proponents of war show for the bodies of the killed and those maimed and injured by their invasion.

  Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

  War, Iraq, People

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• I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Morning, Land

  Ezra Taft Benson (1960). “So shall ye reap: selected addresses”

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• The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading.

  Colin Powell

  Wmd, Iraq, Claims

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• When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.

  Harold Evans

  Fall, Enemy, Friendly

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2009.

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• for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Self, Secret Places, Soul

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• The invasion of Iraq was not an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with Iraq that began on August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied Kuwait, which was a major oil supplier to the United States.

  Michael Klare

  August, Kuwait, Oil

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  Susan Sontag

  Military, Health, Medicine

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• Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Business, Growing Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

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• Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.

  James Buchan

  Egypt, World, West

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• To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and multiplication of bacilli, it is necessary to isolate the bacilli from the body, to grow them in pure culture until they are freed from every disease product of the animal organism, and, by introducing isolated bacilli into animals, to reproduce the same morbid condition that is known to follow from inoculation with spontaneously developed tuberculous material.

  Robert Koch

  Animal, Growth, Tuberculosis

  Robert Koch (1987). “Essays of Robert Koch”, Praeger Pub Text

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• The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.

  David Grinspoon

  Long, Mars, Telescopes

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• Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

  Ronnie Wood

  White, British, British Invasion

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• To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights, to discern and provide against invasions of them, to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority, between burdens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society.

  George Washington

  Teaching, Exercise, Rights

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• Iran is biggest strategic beneficiary of invasion of Iraq.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Iraq, Beneficiaries

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• The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world.

  John Mott

  Christian, Spiritual, Self

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.

  George Will

  Teaching, Iran, Iraq

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• Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.

  Murray Rothbard

  Free Market, Inflation, Property

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1981). “What Has Government Done to Our Money?”, p.48, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For what was the government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over the others and oppose their usurpations?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Rights, Government

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• But fundamentally, I don't think of it as an alien-invasion movie; everybody's here, kind of, right? So, I think it's probably more of an action-adventure picture, if I actually had to qualify it.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Adventure, Thinking, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done by the previous administration because they knew very well that if they would capture al Qaeda, there would be no justification for an invasion in Iraq. There’s no question that the leader of the military operations of the U.S. called back our military, called them back from going after the head of al Qaeda.

  Maurice Hinchey

  Military, Iraq, Leader

  "Dem: Bush intentionally lost bin Laden" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. November 30, 2009.

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• I have said the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. But I think if we're ever going to really tackle the problems posed by jihadi extreme terrorism, we need to understand it and realize that it has antecedents to what happened in Iraq and we have to continue to be vigilant about it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mistake, Thinking, Iraq

  "Hillary Struggled with Wall Street and 9/11, But She Still Won the Debate" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2015.

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• I think it's more normal to make a movie dealing with love, sexual or not, than to make movies about bank robberies, which very rarely happen in real life. So I would say the problem is not what some people feel is normal, I would say the problem is why this whole industry is far more obsessed with filming scenes of dominance, guns, invasion.

  Gaspar Noe

  Real, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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