War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work those that break down and those that get lost.
Forests lakes and rivers clouds and winds stars and flowers stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history someone's statement and ideas of life.
Never fight an inanimate object.
In Afghanistan there is a plan to build democracy hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.