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"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
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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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"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."
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"Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket."
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"In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth."
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"What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war."
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"Let's think of that moment when a woman washed the feet of Jesus with the nard, so expensive: it is a religious moment, a moment of gratitude, a moment of love. And he [Judas] stands apart with bitter criticism: 'But this could have been used for the poor!' This is the first reference that I have found, in the Gospel, to poverty as an ideology. The ideologue does not know what love is, because he does nt know how to give himself."
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"On the battlefield there are no rules."
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"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
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"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
War
"All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want."
Want
"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."
Home
"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"
Language
"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."
Life
"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
Ambition
"The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head."
Love
"I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?"
Life
"After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve."
History
"When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing."
Finance
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