"Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone."
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"In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together."
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"Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story."
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"I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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"Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold."
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"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
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"...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian, the unkindness, the hypocracy, the intolerance, must consider the balance sheet with complacency. And when he remembers that it has laid upon mankind the bitter burden of the sense of sin that has darkened the beauty of the starry night and cast a baleful shadow on the passing plesures of a world to be enjoyed, he must chuckle as he murmurs: give the devil his due."
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"Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost."
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"Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!"
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"The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal."
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"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right."
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"Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results."
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"Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United States. So short-lived has been the American Union, that men who saw it rise may live to see it fall."
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"Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement."
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"For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers."
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"When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war."
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"Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made."
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"This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games."
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"In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations."
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