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- Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.
- W.L. George
- Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
- Garry Wills
- Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
- Augustine Birrell
- All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
- Quentin Crisp
- He grounds the warship he walks on.
- John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983
- Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.
- Charles Ives
- You can't say civilization don't advance...in every war they kill you a new way.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.
- Robert Ardrey
- How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
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