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" War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. "

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" The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. "

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" Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War. "

" 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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" The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. "

" We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors. "

" Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. "

John F. Kennedy

" In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. "

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" 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. "

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" You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed. "

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" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "

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" 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. "

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Winston Churchill

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

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