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" War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "

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" Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. "

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" During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically. "

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" In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. "

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" Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them. "

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" Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. "

Steven Spielberg

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

" I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. "

Chelsea Clinton

" Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. "

" I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. "

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Khabib Nurmagomedov

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" War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. "

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" Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. "

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