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Quote by Albert Pike
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. - Albert

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. – Albert Pike

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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. – Albert Pike

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A war between Europeans is a civil war. – Victor Hugo

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I ended the war a horse ahead. – Nathan Bedford Forrest

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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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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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