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" A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. "

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William Golding

" Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. "

" One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War. "

" I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint. "

" The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. "

" War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. "

" We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. "

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" We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big. "

" You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new. "

" Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't. "

" Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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" There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. "

Charles Lindbergh

" You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it. "

" Quickness is the essence of the war. "

" It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. "

Thomas Jefferson

" War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. "

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" I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war. "

" Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. "

" An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. "

" Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. "

Ernest Hemingway

" I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Only the dead have seen the end of the war. "

George Santayana

" War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. "

John Stuart Mill

" I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist. "

" Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. "

Robert M. La Follette

" The first casualty when war comes is truth. "

" In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda. "

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