Quote by Michael Morpurgo
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I writ

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the pity of war as Wilfred Owen called it. – Michael Morpurgo

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When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them. – Michael Morpurgo

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positive
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One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail. – Michael Morpurgo

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Education
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Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large dont try to trip you up… they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do… if theyve loved a story they love to know how it started. – Michael Morpurgo

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funny
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War
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As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived. – Daniel Morgan

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War

I think Im just someone that just tries to get by. Im kind of – if it was during the Second World War, Id be a black marketeer, I think. – Craig Ferguson

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War

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. – Winston Churchill

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War

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. – George Orwell

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War

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When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my masters and I didnt do it by missing school. – Angela Bassett

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So, my happiness doesnt come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. – Nicki Minaj

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His soul palpitating with love of art… – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919 [referring to Dirk Stroeve &mda

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How is the Empire? – King George V

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