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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. - S

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. – Samuel Butler

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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. – Samuel Butler

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God
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Samuel Butler
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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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Food
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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butler

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Money
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One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, youd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. – George H. W. Bush

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What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. – Simone Weil, Ecrits historiques et politiques, 1960

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War

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. – Friedrich Von Bernhardi

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War

War is by no means something glamorous, and I dont think that should ever be forgotten. – Curt Schilling

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Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. – Herbert Croly

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