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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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. – Michael Morpurgo

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Hope
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Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our childrens right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future. – Michael Morpurgo

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Education
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Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. – Michael Morpurgo

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funny
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War is a defeat for humanity. – Pope John Paul II

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War

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we dont control that. If politicians want a war we dont control that. Acts of terrorism, we cant control them. – will.i.am

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War

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. – Winston Churchill

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War

If Scotland and America go to war, Im afraid Ive already sworn in. – Craig Ferguson

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If you want peace work for justice. – Pope Paul VI

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The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. – David Ben-Gurion

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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. – Arthur Bloch

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Progress

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw

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