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• it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

  Fanny Burney

  Long, Folly, Has Beens

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.35, Delphi Classics

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• Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.

  B. W. Powe

  Communication, Self, Ebb And Flow

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

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• Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war not blots out this alternative.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Men

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• The Devil's methods of opposition are those of alliance and antagonism, and the only serious one is the first. Let us beware of it. Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ. Antagonism is the creation of force for the kingdom of God. Put a man in prison for Christ's sake, and the earthquake will surely follow, and the work will spread.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Loyalty, Jesus, Men

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• In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed would have been the 1914 combination of Britain, France and Russia. Indeed, if such an alliance had acted decisively to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hitler might even have been overthrown by his own military. But it was not to be.

  Niall Ferguson

  Military, Ambition, Simple

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• What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Artist, Self, Hollywood

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• I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Strong, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Cheer, Action, Natural

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.195

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• An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Clouds, Gambling, Envy

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• jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.

  Madeleine Albright

  Art, War, Expression

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• Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Independent, Men

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.55, Penguin

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• Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Sacrifice, Noble, Deeds

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• The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

  Bhagat Singh

  Religious, Dirty, Prison

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• I am so proud to be running with another strong history-making woman, Hillary Clinton, to be president of the United States. I'm proud because her vision of stronger together, building an economy that works for all, not just those at the top, being safe in the world, not only with a strong military, but also strong alliances to battle terrorism and climate change, and also to build a community of respect, just like Barbara Johns tried to do 65 years ago. That's why I'm so proud to be her running mate.

  Tim Kaine

  Running, Strong, Military

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popular movement of artists and intellectuals at that time towards anti fascism, and an alliance with the union movement.

  Jay Roach

  War, Party, Artist

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• So the idea was that, some catastrophic event had happened. There was a long dark age and then out of that, 100 years ago in this world, seven barons - these men and women - rose up and formed the new society. It's a feudal world, a part feudal barons and part warlord and part mob boss and they each control a huge resource so that there's an uneasy alliance, but they all need each other.

  Alfred Gough

  Dark, Men, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to this occasion in collaboration and with alliances to confront it, and invest in the future much better human intelligence so we know what the next steps are.

  Martin O'Malley

  Safe Haven, Next Steps, Collaboration

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

  Lord Acton

  Passion, Dogma, Fanaticism

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• Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Years, Profound, Watches

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• [U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Running, Self, Long

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• The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them.

  Elliott Abrams

  Effort, Administration, Maintaining

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• It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them you're not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, True Friend, Real

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• Pope John Paul II was fascinated by the United States. And I think he was initially surprised at the vigor of the Catholic Church in the United States. Maybe some of the press that we had gotten he found wasn't true. No, I think he suspected the church in the United States. Did he challenge us to some things? Sure, he did. But, no, I always - I think there was a good alliance. There was a good gel there.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Challenges, Catholic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.

  David Foster Wallace

  America, People, Corporations

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.

  Dick Morris

  Wall, War, World

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