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  • Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always talk about reform and changes. Among the old traditions, there are many aspects that are either ill-suited to our present reality or are counterproductive due to their shortsightedness. These, we have consigned to the dustbin of history. War too should be relegated to the dustbin of history.

    Peace   War   Reality  
  • The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget . . . in the final analysis . . . that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.

    Ronald Reagan (1975). “The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan”
  • I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

    Dad   School   Men  
  • Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

    Dream   Sleep   Insomnia  
    1956 Pincher Martin, ch.6.
  • For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is a useless hypothesis; it can be discarded easily into the dustbin. It is not needed.

  • It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich.

    People   Maids   Want  
    "Gestapo : Instrument of Tyranny" by Edward Crankshaw, (p. 103), 1956.
  • Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.

    Beautiful   Taken   Years  
  • Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

    Trying   Arms   Dustbin  
  • Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.302, Simon and Schuster
  • I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

    Nice   Musical   Uptight  
    Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions
  • Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

    Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin
  • [The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

    Prayer   War   School  
    "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.
  • Yesterday, some hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shaftesbury.

    "Arizona Bay". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1997.
  • Web standards keep you out of the dustbin of history.

  • Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

  • No one knows what it's like ... to be a dustbin ... in Shaftesbury ... with hooligans.

    Dustbin   Knows  
    "Arizona Bay". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1997.
  • A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?

    Father   School   Views  
  • It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of a walking dustbin to record an important message, that love truly came to town." - p 16 [re: Princess Leia]

  • You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

    History of the Russian Revolution ch. 47 (1930) (translation by Max Eastman) See Birrell 1
  • It's quite sad to see how many people I've known over that years that just die off, you know like wilted flowers. Well, there's something to be said for flowers in the dustbin.

    Flower   Years   People  
    Source: mojo20.com
  • I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.

    House   Dustbin   Bowie  
    Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.
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