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In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency amo

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. – Gene Tierney

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I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication? – Gene Tierney

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I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. – Gene Tierney

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Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror. – George W. Bush

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We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. – Jello Biafra, quoted in The Guardian, 3 November 2007

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When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them. – Steven Spielberg

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No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. – Pope Paul VI

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I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. – Stanley Baldwin

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Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. Im very medical. I come from a medical family. – Nicole Kidman

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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. – Wendell Phillips

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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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