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" War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. "
Thomas Hobbes
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" You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before. "
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" Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. "
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" War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. "
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" A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. "
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" I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. "
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" The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. "
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" May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! "
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" Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. "
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" I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. "
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" We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War. "
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" Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. "
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" Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do! "
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