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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. – Albert Einstein

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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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The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. – Arthur Henderson

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We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning. – William Westmoreland

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Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. – Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951

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Perhaps only his sense of humor and irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation in the world speaking of his aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight thousand miles away from its shores. – Martin Luther King,Jr., about Ho Chi Minh, Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968

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As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere – it is a lonely place. Its an isolated city in that respect because youre driving to places alone listening to the radio. – Jason Schwartzman

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