"It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace."

Irony, War, Peace, Speech

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"It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace."

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"And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same."

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"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."

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"And what's the irony?...In the end... we call the enemy friends... the fake people again friends... should I continue here with the words?"

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"If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story."

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"What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!"

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"I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper."

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"Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit."

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"Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done..."

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"There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof."

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"Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember."

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"Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure."

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"People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them."

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"I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination."

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"Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell."

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