"As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents."
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"Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it."
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"Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism."
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"Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention)."
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"But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set."
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"The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is."
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"Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war."
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"If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression."
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"Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society - its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions."
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"We are a nation at war - and we should act like it."
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"How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?"
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"War is sweet to those who never tried it."
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"War is sweet to them that know it not."
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"Sweet is war to those who know it not."
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"People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them."
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"I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command."
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"One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream."
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"In terms of any sacrifices at the time [of World War II], I was somewhat protected living on a small farm where there was food, different perhaps from living in a city environment. I know such things as gas rationing did exist, but it wasn't anything that interfered with my daily activity."
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"I know that I was conscious of all the aspects of the war, having had cousins who were in the army, who would send me notes and memorabilia. I began to collect things that they would send me."
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"Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden."
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