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• Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?

  Mother Teresa

  Brother, Children, Men

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.330, Image

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• You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

  Erma Bombeck

  4th Of July, Food, Patriotic

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• Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank

  Gary Chapman

  Children, Emotional, Language Of Love

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• Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

  Edward Abbey

  Gun, Hands, Molotov Cocktail

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness”

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• Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.

  Steven Spielberg

  Military, War, Air

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• At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

  Danica Patrick

  Party, Jeans, Indy 500

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• The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank.

  John Grant

  Running, Aquariums, Ships

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• I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.

  Portia de Rossi

  Beautiful, Fashion, Jeans

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

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• You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off - they're not going to miss it.

  Kid Rock

  Oil, Missing, Needs

  "Kid Rock boycotts iTunes over pay" by Ian Youngs, news.bbc.co.uk. June 18, 2008.

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• Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded," Shane said. Second finger. "Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank." Third finger. "Killed over ice cream. Basically, any death that requires me to be stupid first.

  Rachel Caine

  Stupid, Tombstone, Ice Cream

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• By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

  Jessica Savitch

  Car, Covering, Literature

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Motor Oil, Years, Feet

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.124, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

  Edward Abbey

  Democracy, Rifles, Bombers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, War, America

  "Could Haiti Become A Terrorist Haven? Only America Can Decide" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2010.

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• Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

  Patrick Stewart

  Lions, Captains, Rooms

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• I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Past, Years, Political

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• Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer driver's know: a gas stop can be a traumatic experience. You need enough clearance on every possible side. You can't cut the turn too sharp or you'll clip the gas pump. Getting back on the freeway can be as challenging as sending a man to the moon.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Cutting, Moon, Men

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• What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How would the comment section on YouTube change if, to use it, you had to have the schooling necessary to have a basic understanding of how computers and the internet work? More seriously, would anyone smart enough to know how to design and build a tank, or a laser guided anti-aircraft missile, or a computer and video editing software be stupid enough to join ISIS? In fact, if such knowledge was required—would it even be possible for there to be standing armies?

  John C. Wright

  Stupid, Smart, Silly

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• What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely?

  Colin Rowe

  Couple, Fall, Airplane

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• Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Together, you’ve got a kingdom. If you have a Corvette, you don’t put water in the tank. The human machine deserves the same treatment.

  Jack LaLanne

  Kings, Queens, Exercise

  "Exercise king LaLanne wants to reach listeners". Interview with Jane Glen Haas, www.ledger-enquirer.com. October 9, 2007.

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• Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.

  Dan Millman

  Useless, Littles, Firsts

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.

  Charles Lemert

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.

  David Frum

  Book, Thinking, Agency

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• How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

  Jay Kay

  People, Economy

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• I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

  Agatha Christie

  Education, Father, Math

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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