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"During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity."
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"This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war."
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"War is the business of barbarians."
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"There isn't a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!"
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"There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again."
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"War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods."
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"Women and children make you weak, get rid of them when you are in war."
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"It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century."
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"One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it."
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"Serious sport is war minus the shooting."
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"A war between Europeans is a civil war."
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"I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it."
Past
"I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing."
Hope
"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."
Learning
"The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day."
Experience
"Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others."
Family
"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life."
Life
"The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces."
Father
"After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household."
Money
"I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss."
Music
"But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home."
Family
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