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"I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers."
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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."
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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."
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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."
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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."
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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."
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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"
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"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."
Life

"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
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"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
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"Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people."
People

"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."
Memory

"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."
Life

"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
Nothing

"All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely."
Life

"I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers."
War

"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
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