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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

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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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Margaret Atwood
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Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult. – Ron Wyden

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Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didnt work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably wont work for you either. – Jon Meacham

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We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction. – Aesop

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