Quote by Desiderius Erasmus
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. - Desiderius Er

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. – Desiderius Erasmus

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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Platos cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and dont know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? – Desiderius Erasmus

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I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? – Thomas Jefferson

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They should pick a dry year to fight the war. Better yet, civilize the moronic races and have no wars at all. – Lt. Clair J. Clark, letter to wife, March 1944

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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. – François Fénelon

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I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad. – Dick Cheney

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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. – Paul Valery

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H. L. Mencken

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. – John Muir

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If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. – Edsger Dijkstra

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