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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
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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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"However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops."
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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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"The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them."
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"World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us."
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"That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it."
Wisdom
"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
Wisdom
"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."
Fame
"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."
Life
"The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy."
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"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
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"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."
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"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."
Faith
"When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person."
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"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves."
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