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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution t

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. – Douglas MacArthur

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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. – Douglas MacArthur

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I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. – Douglas MacArthur

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Men
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In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash. – Douglas MacArthur

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History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. – Enoch Powell

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When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. – Arundhati Roy

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When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. – Robert Anton Wilson

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History

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. – Albert Camus

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Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better. – Author unknown

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The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders attitudes toward risk – and failure. – Dee Dee Myers

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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. – Josh Billings

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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. – John Perry Barlow

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