"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."

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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"I also found being called Sir rather silly."

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"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."

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"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."

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"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."

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"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."

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"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."

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"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."

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"There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America."

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"There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre."

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"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."

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