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Quote by Margaret Atwood
War is what happens when language fails. - Margaret Atwood

War is what happens when language fails. – Margaret Atwood

Other quotes by Margaret Atwood

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. – Margaret Atwood

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power
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Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. – Margaret Atwood

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Children
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Margaret Atwood
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War
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. – Robert Walpole

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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol 1, book VII, chapter 4

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War

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies. – Terry Eagleton

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. – Anthony Burgess

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Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. – Henri Nouwen

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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. – Bill Cosby

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. – Matthew Prior

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