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"Burning dinner is not incompetence but war."
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"This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war."
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"Women and children make you weak, get rid of them when you are in war."
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"A war between Europeans is a civil 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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"What branch do you want to go in? "I don' give a god-damn, said Pilon jauntily. "I guess we need men like you in the infantry. And Pilon was written so. He turned then to Big Joe, and the Portagee was getting sober. "Where do you want to go? "I want to go home, Big Joe said miserably. The sergeant put him in the infantry too."
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"They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do."
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"We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."
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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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"Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement."
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"If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening."
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"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats."
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"My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb."
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"It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover."
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"Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket."
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"All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations."
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"Burning dinner is not incompetence but war."
War
"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done."
Woman
"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."
Life
"Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen."
Love
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