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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear

The cannon thunders… limbs fly in all directions… one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice… its Humanity in search of happiness. – Charles Baudelaire

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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. – Charles Baudelaire

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Sin
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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. – Charles Baudelaire

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Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. – Carroll Quigley

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And Im a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. Thats the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. – Shelby Foote

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There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. – Sun Tzu

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All war is based on deception. – Sun Tzu

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