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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 wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down. "

Ernest Hemingway

Morning

Down

Wake Up

" During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return. "

" The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918. "

" All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. "

" 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. "

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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Black

" I have not yet begun to fight! "

" Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. "

" You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. "

" 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. "

" 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. "

" 'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war. "

" A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. "

" In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. "

" 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

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Divine

War

" If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. "

" A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. "

" There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. "

Ernest Hemingway

Rock

Out

" The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. "

" I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. "

" Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. "

Ernest Hemingway

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You

" A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. "

" War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. "

" There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. "

" We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we're supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person's heart is different - be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it. "

" The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. "

" As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform. "

" I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go. "

" The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. "

" I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. "

" You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. "