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Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.
Conan O'Brien
Fans
First
Lost
Virginity
Later
Finally
Several
Had
Mainly
Tickets
Crying
Because
Said
Still
Years
Began
Movie
Realized
Who
Wars
Showing
Star
Star Wars
Actually
Started
We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.
Baha'u'llah
Happiness
Good
Great
Peace
World
Men
Affection
Unity
Shall
Sons
Between
Come
Most
Pass
Nations
Fruitless
Should
Wars
Away
Strengthened
Desire
Bonds
Harm
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin Franklin
War
Later
Bill
Paid
Wars
Wartime
The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
Al Gore
Heart
People
Will
First
AIDS
Security
Rival
Know
Protecting
Decade
Decades
Die
Died
Century
Agenda
Who
Wars
Now
Lives
Number
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin
Myself
Human Being
Fate
Made
Poverty
Every
Way
Responsible
Would
Would-Be
Individually
Come
Human
Being
Personally
Us
Act
Acted
Who
Wars
Unison
I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.
Andrew Garfield
Faith
Me
People
Everything
Crisis
Religious
Religious Wars
Having
Terrifying
Always
How
Get
Certain
Who
Wars
Started
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Addicted
Distraction
America
Wars
People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
Carrie Fisher
Me
People
Big
Only
Knew
Know
Still
George
Yes
Hit
Going
Asking
Who
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
Christopher Hitchens
Technology
Defense
Tyrants
Only
Share
He
Sought
Said
Reagan
Order
Ronald Reagan
Wars
Star
Star Wars
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
Daisaku Ikeda
Wisdom
History
Result
First
Differences
International Relations
Resolve
Relations
Local
Our
Negotiate
Evidence
Diplomatic
Impasse
Examples
Tragic
Human
Whether
Capacities
Communicative
Skillful
Use
Communities
Wars
International
Filled
Human Wisdom
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
Daniel Berrigan
Rat
Creation
Down
Military
Earth
Worse
Arms
Arms Race
Were
Dumping
Than
Hole
Race
Across
Wars
Ever
'Liberal Fascism' is less an expose of left-wing hypocrisy than a chance to exact political revenge. Yet, the title of his book aside, what distinguishes Goldberg from the Sean Hannitys and Michael Savages is a witty intelligence that deals in ideas as well as insults - no mean feat in the nasty world of the culture wars.
David Oshinsky
Culture
Book
Revenge
Intelligence
World
Political
Hypocrisy
Liberal
Distinguishes
Exact
Feat
Ideas
Well
Insults
Deals
Witty
Nasty
His
Left-Wing
Michael
Than
Title
Mean
Aside
Less
Wars
Sean
Expose
Fascism
Chance
Savages
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
Edwin Way Teale
Suffering
People
World
Few
Vivid
Over
How
Blurred
Wars
Millions
Two
Numbers
World Wars
In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties.
Harry Browne
People
World
Welfare
Free
Country
State
Relatively
Liberties
Possible
Civil
Civil Liberties
Proof
Inspiration
Over
Looked
Welfare State
Foreign
Existence
Very
America
Tax
Wars
Peaceful
Income
Income Tax
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
John Boyd Orr
Revenge
Humiliation
Power
Defeat
Lust
Rulers
Out
Some
Wipe
Glory
Due
Been
Former
Wars
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
John Boyd Orr
Revolution
Waxed
Thousand
Thousand Years
Attack
Arisen
Powerful
Empires
Another
Without
Fallen
Years
Five
Six
After
Internal
Wars
Conquest
Last
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.
John Hoeven
Today
Great
World
Better
Veterans
Made
Country
Own
Our
Great Country
East
Better Place
Continent
America
Middle
African
Middle East
Place
Far
Far East
Europe
Wars
Even
Hemisphere
Deserts
Here
World Wars
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
Lysander Spooner
Crimes
Enslave
Destroy
Carried
Plunder
Greatest
Governments
Mankind
Wars
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
Maria Montessori
Great
Never
Noble
Ideas
Always
Been
Existed
Sentiments
Transmitted
Wars
Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.
Mattie Stepanek
Words
Calm
Think
Weapons
Something
Drink
Over
Cup
Should
Wars
Fought
Bombs
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Peace
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Need
I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.
Ming-Na Wen
Day
Me
Films
One Day
Would
Dreamed
Call
Always
George
George Lucas
Ask
Lucas
Wars
Star
Star Wars
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
Nancy Wake
Women
Hate
Men
Wave
Our
See
Knit
Goodbye
Come
Proud
Just
Them
Then
Should
Wars
Why
Violence
When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.
Oriana Fallaci
Life
War
Me
You
Trust
Living
Correspondent
All Your Life
Born
Develop
Like
Ready
Always
Been
Trust Me
Child
Die
Form
War Correspondent
Your
Wars
Fatalism
It doesn't take much insight to realize that wars have been getting worse every time - worse from the point of view of the civilian, more and more destructive, more and more total.
Rene Girard
Time
Every
Every Time
Worse
Destructive
Total
Insight
Civilian
More
More And More
Point
Point Of View
Take
Been
Getting
Realize
Much
View
Wars
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul
Obligations
People
World
Liberty
Our
Our People
Moral
Constitutional
Economic
No-Win
Protect
Representatives
Bankruptcy
While
Turmoil
Wars
Washington
Bringing
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