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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on th

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. – John Stuart Mill

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If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. – Hans A. Bethe

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I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. – George McGovern

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. – St. Jerome

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Theres something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. – Julie Burchill

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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, It might have been. – John Greenleaf Whittier

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. – Thomas Jefferson

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