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

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

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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they dont. – Doris Lessing

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Learning
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Doris Lessing
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really havent changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you dont change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing

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Age
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Doris Lessing
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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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Other Quotes from
War
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Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? – Douglas Jerrold

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War

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I dont even think its as much as what I want for myself. Its more what I want for the people around me. Thats what I want. – Tom Cruise

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War

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. – Francis Meehan

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War

World War II has always been of great interest to me. Ive known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into. – Harry Browne

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War

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. – Charles Eastman

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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems. – G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955

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Science

Its very strange that most people dont care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. – Doug Coupland

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Family

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. – J.G. Ballard, “News from the Sun,” Myths of the Near Future, 1982

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Sex