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" 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

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" A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. "

" It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword. "

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" Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. "

" The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918. "

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" The episode of the 'shoe bomber,' Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My solution has been to replace my customary lace-up Oxfords with a pair of slip-on loafers when I fly. Generals are always fighting the last war, and security screeners are the same. "

" People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. "

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" Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. "

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" An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. "

" Lyrically, 'Planets' is the precursor to 'Acid Rain'; it's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations. "

" During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return. "

" Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. "

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" I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly. "

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" Force always attracts men of low morality. "

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" The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster. "

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" You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed. "

" As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. "

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" The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. "

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" Imagination is more important than knowledge. "

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" If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. "

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" Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. "

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" What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. "