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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
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A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
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A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
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About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.
Out on a Limb. Details Magazine. October 1996 -
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P -
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
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After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
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