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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? – Thomas Jefferson

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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson

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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. – Graham Greene

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My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years. – Jane Seymour

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War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted. – Margaret Sanger

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First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, thats a joke and everybody in the world knows it. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion. – John Cale

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I mean, you have a general tone of it but its pretty much you get to come in and youre going to flip this car and its going to blow up and youre going to come out on fire and you go oh, thats cool, and then you get paid a lot of money. – David R. Ellis

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To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. – George Lansdowne

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When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I dont think there are too many films coming out these days that were going to look at in the future and say, This is one of the great ones. – Lindsay Lohan

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