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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
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"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."
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"In war there is no prize for runner-up."
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
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"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil."
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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
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"Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "use it well, use it wisely." We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training."
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"There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense."
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"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."
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"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."
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"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly."
Food
"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."
Reading
"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."
People
"Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring."
Fun
"War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist."
War
"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken."
World
"There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk."
Religion
"I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed."
Life
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