"War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace."

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"War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace."

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"Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore."

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"Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?"

"Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war."

"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."

"Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?"

"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."

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"Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant, I act under orders."

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"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land."

"There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future."

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

"Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore."