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"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it."
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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"
"Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller."
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"Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all."
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"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."
"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
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