"Can't make an omelette without killing a few people."
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"If you go to space, you'll look down and see no national boundaries. You'll never see the gods people are killing each other over, but they're incredibly real."
"We can't afford to be killing one another."
"You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke."
"[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?"
"anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]"
"America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians."
"He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him."
"Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler."
"Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed."
"But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them."