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"I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War."
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"That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you."
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"Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields."
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"We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy."
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"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped."
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"All oppression creates a state of war."
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"In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war."
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"Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war."
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"No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works."
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"I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing."
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"Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love."
Love


"I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets."
Man


"There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount."
Cannibalism


"It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others."
Faces


"Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable."
Death


"You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show."
Work


"Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people."
Health


"World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us."
War


"Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples."
Ladies


"All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person."
Ideas
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