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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. Frank B. Kellogg

War Peace Conflict Military Broaden Reliance Alliance Armament Know Does Inevitably Been Conditions Centuries Produce

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries. Frank B. Kellogg

Every Defense Adequate Has-Been Been Centuries

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Good scores are valuable, but centuries stick in the mind. There are influential people who might not notice a good innings of 60 or 70, but they will react if you get a hundred. Geoffrey Boycott

Good You People Mind Valuable Will Innings Hundred React Stick Scores Get Influential Centuries Might Notice Who

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. Georg Buchner

Humanity Slow Strides Only Counted Centuries

For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas. George Smoot

Life First Stars Other Extraterrestrial Evidence Those Systems Could Part Simply Ideas Around However Were Intelligent Being Centuries Might Planetary Many Even Now Humans Speculations

The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet. George William Russell

World Wind Kingdom Shall Over Blow Blown Heaven Centuries

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing. Giacomo Leopardi

Art Nothing Other Else Everything Everything Else Presume Some Remake Know Make Because Disciplines How Which Apart Centuries

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with. Ginny Brown-Waite

Rights World Tyranny Out Emerge Shadows Had Freedoms Cry Vulnerable Heard Oppressed Bloodshed Centuries Lived Chance

Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries. Gordon Brown

Prosperity Evidence Ancestors Ninth Had Almost Around Left Centuries Sweden Sea Certainly England Search Travelled

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years. Gregory Benford

Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords. Harvey Pekar

Me Suffering People Events Amazing Creation Other Jews Way Horrible Colonial Like Self-Determination Make Unusual Understand Israel Caused Frighten Going Politically Endured Centuries Now Deserve Right Awkward Number

Over the centuries, close-knit tribes have played an important part in the cohesion of Libyan society. Hisham Matar

Important Society Tribes Part Over Important Part Centuries Played Cohesion

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries. Jacob Zuma

Dominance Africa Centuries European Suffered

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. James Buchan

Life Great People World Every Corner Gave Earth Hundreds Ease Plenty Cities More Allowing Freed Feed Refined Began Which Fuel Centuries Themselves Toil Use Population Petroleum Millions Millions Of People

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. James Henry Breasted

Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him. James May

Man Looking Those Crisis Through He Him Himself Became Around Pillar Refinement Modern Modern Man Depiction After Centuries Incapable Popular

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem. Janet Montgomery

Before Witches Were Salem Scotland Burned Happened Centuries England

Obviously, you're trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytelling. I'm trying to get back to the absolute basic story of who was Jesus, what did he say, what was he teaching, and what did he do. Jay Parini

The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries. Jay Parini

Made Relevant Message Him Centuries Twenty Jesus Core

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Cause Made Active Our Though Torrent Brought Unseen Demand Over Demands New Occupied Always Continually Rolling Human Senses Which Race Centuries Turns Human Race Found Ever

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. Jean Genet

Great People Humiliation Wind Saw Ghetto Carrying Only Shame Had Almost Dropped Invisibility Over Gentle Been Friendly Little Centuries Breeze Swept Away Four

For centuries, native Eskimos cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they discovered Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year later the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest. Jeanne Marie Laskas

Natural World Year Field State Later Bay Poking Year Later Arrived Blocks Discovered Began North North America America Native Oil Holes Fuel Centuries Cut Use Explorers Largest

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