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"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

"Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "use it well, use it wisely." We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training."

"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."
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"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."

"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."

"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."

"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."

"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."
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