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Clearly Clinton made a gamble — the gamble that you could go to war without calling it a war. That you could use force without using ground troops. That you could fight a major fight...

—Ivo Daalder

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Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

—George S. Patton

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Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.

—Emily Thorne

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

—Erich Maria

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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

—Dwight D.

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I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

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But it’s natural for men to compete against each other. We’ve been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

—Iris Johansen

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The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

—Joseph Heller

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Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying

—David Mack

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War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.

—Lily Burana

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It becomes easy,” Finbar said. “It’s in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs – you learn to...

—Juliet Marillier

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I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn’t expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since...

—Guy Sajer

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Thomas Jefferson once said: ‘Of course the people don’t want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked and...

—Jon Stewart

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Then he leaned over, right there in the restaurant parking lot, and kissed me. And it wasn’t a friendship kiss, either. It was tender and real, and utterly romantic.

—Janette Rallison

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Since youre here, Courtauld said wearily, youd better explain why these lollipops or whatever they’re called have to be on silk. If I’d had a lollipop I knew precisely where Id stick it.

—Leo Marks

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Those are the men,’ added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, ‘those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

—Leo Tolstoy

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War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.

—Leo Tolstoy

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That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.

—Nick Mills

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The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he’s with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

—Michael Ondaatje

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The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

—Joyce Carol

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That’s what you get,’ he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, ‘when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give ’em either one or the other,...

—K.W. Jeter

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This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside of me now. The Angkar (Khmer Rouge government) has taught me...

—Loung Ung

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Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don’t, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

—Max Brooks

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Imagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I’m a dreamerBut I’m not the only oneI hope someday...

—John Lennon

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Statul!… Statul care ucide!… În spate statul nostru, în față statul dușman, și la mijloc noi

—Liviu Rebreanu

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When they killed him, Mother wouldn’t hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I’ve...

—Mark Lawrence

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A daughter, a wife, a grandson,’ You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly...

—Nadeem Aslam

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Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies...

—Lloyd DeMause

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It is a legacy of the Cold War. It is poorly founded, useless and can only be harmful. This should have been scrapped a long time ago.

—Li Zhaoxing

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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

—Marcus Tullius

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Todavía se prolongó la lucha, y se amontonaron los muertos. Pero al final de la mañana, después de una batalla que mereció canciones, los guerreros de las Tierras Fértiles pudieron mirar su victoria. Eso que...

—Liliana Bodoc

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The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wile beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been...

—Peter Maass

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A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie’s concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism, which was defined to refer only...

—Mohsin Hamid

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I can’t say for certain he was a war criminal, but I’d be willing to bet a year’s salary he was. A horrible person, it’s great to get him off the streets.

—Kenneth Pollack

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If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we going to invite Syria back here again?

—Michel Aoun

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You do not mean there is danger of peace?”, cried Jack.

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When you feel weak in spirit, think about the agreements you made with yourself about how to live an honourable life. We all have them, but unfortunately the contracts are often written in invisible ink...

—Suzanne Hayes

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a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia.

—Prince Abdullah

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Some historians subsequently said that the twentieth century actually started in 1914, when war broke out, because it was first war in history in which so many countries took part, in which so many people...

—Patrik Ouředník

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If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing...

—Ray Bradbury

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To a happy war!’ laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.

—Stuart Hill

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Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

—Sebastian Junger

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He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this...

—Ted Dekker

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John Smith: Mankind doesn’t need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let’s hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the...

—Paul Cornell

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In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: “In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I’m treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, ‘Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?’No,'”...

—Stephen E.

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It was a part he felt himself feeling his way into, and the longer it went on, the more the men around him confirmed him in his role. It was as if they were willing...

—Richard Flanagan

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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

—Sun Tzu

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War is obsolete

—Richard Fuller

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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

—Sun Tzu

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The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

—Robert Buettner

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