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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

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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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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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood

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Love
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Margaret Atwood
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Other Quotes from
War
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The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because its a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play. – Sloane Crosley

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War

Only the dead have seen the end of the war. – George Santayana

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War

Im tired. Im tired of feeling rejected by the American people. Im tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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War

When theres a war, people get married. – Doris Lessing

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War

Random Quotes

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. – Kahlil Gibran

Category:
Perception

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Age

Vices are character traits. Sins are specific acts of commission or omission. Once Judaism and Christianity adopted the concepts of vice and virtue from the Greek and Roman moralists, vices were often called sins and sins vices. The seven deadly – Solomon Schimmel

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Vices

Im not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths – grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic. – James Dyson

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design