Colin S. Gray famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.
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It was no picnic despite what anyone might say later . . . . Most of us were pretty scared all the bloody time; you only felt happy when the battle was over and you were on your way home, then you were safe for a bit, anyway.
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American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy.
-- Colin S. Gray
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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It was the straying that found the path direct.
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Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality
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The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.
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And I certainly intend to direct someday.
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Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.
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