Quote by Doris Lessing
My father was in the First World War. - Doris Lessing

My father was in the First World War. – Doris Lessing

Other quotes by Doris Lessing

It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

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Truth
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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – Doris Lessing

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History
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something youve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing

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Learning
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Other Quotes from
War
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I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didnt want to be put into that box. – Diane Kruger

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War

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. – John le Carre

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War

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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War

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that its assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale. – John Bolton

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War

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My dad died of a stroke. – William Shatner

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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesars laurel crown. – William Blake

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device. – Lawrence Lessig

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legal