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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. – George Orwell

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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. – George Orwell

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Men
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. – George Orwell

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Age
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. – George Orwell

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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. – H. G. Wells

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You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. – Jessica Savitch

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War

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. – Ernest Hemingway

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The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because its a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play. – Sloane Crosley

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