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" I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true. "
Ernest Hemingway
Now
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" No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. "
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" The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. "
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" I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around. "
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" But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. "
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" I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. "
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" Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. "
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" Time is the least thing we have of. "
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" You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. "
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" I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. "
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" When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. "
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" I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. "
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