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"The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world."
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"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."
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"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."
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"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."
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"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."
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"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
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"It is not only the living who are killed in war."
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"One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories."
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"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."
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"And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen."
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"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
Destiny
"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
Leadership
"The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world."
War
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
Motivational
"America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men."
Politics
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
Success
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
Identity
"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."
Success
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."
Success
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."
Success
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