Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
St. Jerome
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Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. -
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. -
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts. -
War is never a solution it is an aggravation. -
What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
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- Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
- Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
- Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
- True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
- The friendship that can cease has never been real.