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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies.
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as Soldiers are for finishing it. You take Diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.
World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.
When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
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