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Rebecca West

"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."

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"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."

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"I have seen enough. I am ready to see the world die."

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"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."

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"He wanted to grind every Federation world into dust beneath his boot as his army blazed a trail of blood and corpses all the way to Seneca.He wanted to storm their inner sanctum and fire a laser into the skull of their Field Marshal while their Chairman watched, then fire a laser into the skull of their Chairman.He wanted to burn their bodies on a pyre and carry the ashes back to Deucali and spread them on his mother's consecrated grave."

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"It was like the beginning of the end of the world."

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"Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world."

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"We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create."

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"To Kalist, Baumauer's just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire."

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"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."

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"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."

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