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We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war. -- Michael N. Castle
The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace. -- Daisaku Ikeda
To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war. -- Stanley Hauerwas
It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness. -- Jessie Douglas Kerruish
'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war. -- Stanley Hauerwas
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization. -- Joseph Rotblat
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill. -- Mike Pence
I'm less of a 'Star Wars' fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist? -- Blair Brown
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. -- Ed Smith
Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex. -- Phil Klay
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War. -- Chris Bohjalian
Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general. -- Lorene Scafaria
The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American. -- Octavio Paz
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions - and Iraq may be one of them - when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror. -- Michael Ignatieff
Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction. -- Robert Kazinsky
When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.' -- George Lucas
It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. -- L. Neil Smith
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. -- John le Carre
Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality. -- Cordell Hull
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion. -- Virginia Postrel
Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war. -- Sebastian Junger
War is the ultimate reality-based horror show. -- David Hackworth
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. -- Lewis Carroll
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. -- Lewis Carroll
In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. -- John McCain
Indeed, the truth, the reality of the Kosovo War, was actually hidden behind all the 'humanitarian' faces. -- Paul Virilio
The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq. -- Kent Conrad
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. -- John Steinbeck
He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend. -- Pittacus Lore
The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal. -- Pearl S. Buck
In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life. -- Jonah Goldberg
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. -- Annie Jacobsen
But remember this, Japanese boyairplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality. -- Hayao Miyazaki
I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world. -- Aaron Eckhart
But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality. -- Hayao Miyazaki
And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war. -- Gavin Hood
As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality. -- Mike Rogers
Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are. -- Dave Price

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