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War! that mad game the world so loves to play. - Jonathan Swift

War! that mad game the world so loves to play. – Jonathan Swift

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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. – Jonathan Swift

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Prayer
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Jonathan Swift
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. – Jonathan Swift

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strength
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Jonathan Swift
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War
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No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves. – American Indian Proverb

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War

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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War

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. – Karl Kraus

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War

No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, Ode to Lovely War, and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldnt sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger. – Jane Seymour

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War

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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. – Alexander McQueen

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I think its sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like Im best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, Id be there in a heartbeat. But thats not how the real world works. – Tiffeny Milbrett

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sad
[H]e was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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Humility

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry. – Stephen Spender, about Rainer Maria Rilke

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Poetry