Quotes with war-war

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  • Douglas Macarthur I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Abraham Pais I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.
    Source: To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Albert Einstein I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Hicks I loved when Bush came out and said, We are losing the war against drugs. You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.
    Source: Queens Theatre Late Show
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • John Adams I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Lord George Byron I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Abba Eban I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Antonia Fraser I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Tim O'Brien I was a coward. I went to the war.
    Source: De last die ze droegen (1990) 58
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Anne Perry I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops.
    Source: Love, Laughter and Truth
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Al Sharpton I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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