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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
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The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
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The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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The condition of man is a condition of war of every one against everyone.
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.
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The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
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The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.
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The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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The First World War had begun, imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
Source: The First World War (1963) p. 20
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