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If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.


Garry Wills
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After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.


Thomas Huxley
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The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.


Tom Hooper
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
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The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
Terry Waite
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The most terrible things end, at last.


James Theodore Bent
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With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
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Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.


Paul Robeson
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.


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It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.


Sting
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.


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The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
Louis Finkelstein
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It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
Bruce Catton
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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.


John Churton Collins
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