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

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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Ive never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. Its probably because they have forgotten their own. – Margaret Atwood

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Freedom
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Other Quotes from
War
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions. – Harry Browne

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War

I did a production of Journeys End, an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, You know, you could really do this if you wanted to. – Tom Hiddleston

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War

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. – Arlen Specter

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War

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. – Harold Pinter

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War

Random Quotes

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone. – Ed Royce

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Technology

To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wise Words

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Courage

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. – Dorothy Thompson

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Fear