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Quote by Thomas Paine
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstan

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. – Thomas Paine

Other quotes by Thomas Paine

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. – Thomas Paine

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Death
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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them. – Thomas Paine

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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions. – Harry Browne

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Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that – we probably had the word cappuccino about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously. – Hugh Jackman

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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. – Anatole France

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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? – Virginia Woolf

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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. – Sigmund Freud

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We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. – Bobby Clarke

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