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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second Wor

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. – Harold Pinter

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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect. – Harold Pinter

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respect
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Harold Pinter
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldnt possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. Theres a relationship to government about knights. – Harold Pinter

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Government
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Harold Pinter
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Theres a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. – Harold Pinter

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Politics
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War
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Im sure it is, Im not for any kind of war, weve been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one. – Larry Hagman

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War

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. – Elihu Root

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War

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. – Salvador Dali

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War

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. – Graham Greene

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War

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Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. – J. Petit-Senn

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Self-Control

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy cant be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office – that all of the worlds problems arent his predecessors fault. – Sarah Palin

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Well, if Fortune be a woman, shes a good wench for this gear. – William Shakespeare

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good

I think women should start to embrace their age. Whats the alternative to getting older? You die. I cant change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. – Olivia Munn

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Age