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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. – Simone Weil

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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. – Simone Weil

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God
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We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. – Simone Weil

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alone
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. – John Stuart Mill

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The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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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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In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations. – Arthur Henderson

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