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" The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. "

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" Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. "

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" In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. "

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" What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? "

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" The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. "

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