"For some soldiers, there is a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies."

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

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"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."

John Green, American Author

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

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

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"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought."

Juan Cole, American Educator

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"You should never consider finished a war you did not win."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."

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"No, we love war.War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment."It's the mark of a very, very young soul, Mr. Whittier used to say, "to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we're here. And we love disease. Cancer. We love earthquakes. In this amusement-park fun house we call the planet earth, Mr. Whittier says we adore forest fires. Oil spills. Serial killers."

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

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

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

"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."

"I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought."

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"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."

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"My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward."

"They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold."

"We shall become, or we shall overcome."

"A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching."

"Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare."

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