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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
War

"Sitting in the movie theater watching "Star Wars," I've never had an experience with any form of entertainment that was like that. It was almost spiritual. I couldn't believe that someone's mind created that. And, right, it felt like George Lucas had a piano that was playing my emotions, and he could go ahead and do whatever he wanted and make me lean forward if he wanted, or he could make me go oh, or he could make me hide my face."

War Spiritual Stars
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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
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"We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation...When somebody is 19 years old, they're gonna do what they're gonna do just like we did... For me the most important thing was for him to know anytime he can call and I'll come whatever happens."

Thinking War Artist
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will.i.am Musician, Producer
War

"We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them."

Want War Outcomes
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Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright
War

"My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you."

Country War Lying
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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace."

War Peace Treaties
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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
War

"I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then."

War Basics
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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames."

War Fire Flames
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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
War

"With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China."

War China Defects
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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways."

Thinking Real War
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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing."

War Moon Adventure
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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?"

War House Cooking
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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
War

"I know that nobody who hasn't been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of being safe at home, it's also true that many Americans who think they know what being at war is, don't. Including, of course, George W. Bush and his people. They don't have a clue."

Thinking War Home
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T. E. Lawrence Writer, Archaeologist, Military Officer
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"Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We might be a vapour, blowing where we listed Ours should be a war of detachment. We were to contain the enemy by the silent threat of a vast, unknown desert"

War Ideas Army
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
War

"I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival"

War Views Survival
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Tad Williams Author
War

"The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make."

Men War Heaven
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War

"Since most of the action of the war actually happens off the page (offstage), I wanted to give the characters something they had to contend with on a daily basis, some sort of obstacle. Weather seemed to be the one great equalizer regardless of your station in life - when it snows, everyone is inconvenienced to a certain degree. Plus it's tactile, weather, it affects the skin."

War Character Weather
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