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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. – Elizabeth Bowen

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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. – James Madison

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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? – Benjamin Spock

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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. – Karl Lagerfeld

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. – Napoleon

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