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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. - George Orwell

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. – George Orwell

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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. – George Orwell

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Future
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George Orwell
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

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great
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George Orwell
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Ive been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldnt pay for the dental work he needed. – Matthew Lesko

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There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. – Sun Tzu

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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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Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. – Ellen Key

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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. – William Butler Yeats

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Its so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. Its the best feeling. – Liam Payne

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If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student. – Paul Graham

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