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  • Rahm Emanuel on war

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    “The fact is, Bush’s war policy has failed. It’s failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?” -Rahm Emanuel

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  • Brad Pitt on war

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    “I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.” -Brad Pitt

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  • Ron Wyden on war

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    “Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.” -Ron Wyden

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  • Mira Nair on war

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    “With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.” -Mira Nair

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  • Ringo Starr on war

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    “I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don’t remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.” -Ringo Starr

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  • Gavin DeGraw on war

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    “When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.” -Gavin DeGraw

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  • John W. Vessey, Jr. on war

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    “Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they’re going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.” -John W. Vessey, Jr.

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  • Alan Dershowitz on war

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    “It’s never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.” -Alan Dershowitz

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  • J. G. Ballard on war

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    “The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.” -J. G. Ballard

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  • Dick Cheney on war

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    “From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we’re engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.” -Dick Cheney

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  • Henry A. Wallace on war

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    “Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.” -Henry A. Wallace

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  • Dan Savage on war

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    “The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.” -Dan Savage

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  • Omar N. Bradley on war

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    “We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.” -Omar N. Bradley

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  • J. B. Priestley on war

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    “Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.” -J. B. Priestley

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  • John le Carre on war

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    “I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.” -John le Carre

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  • Angela Merkel on war

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    “Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.” -Angela Merkel

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  • Daniel Boone on war

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    “May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!” -Daniel Boone

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  • Sloane Crosley on war

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    “The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it’s a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.” -Sloane Crosley

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  • Graham Greene on war

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    “Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.” -Graham Greene

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  • Leon Panetta on war

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    “After every major conflict – World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.” -Leon Panetta

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  • Nathan Bedford Forrest on war

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    “I ended the war a horse ahead.” -Nathan Bedford Forrest

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  • Roberto Cavalli on war

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    “I began to speak well at a very advanced age – 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.” -Roberto Cavalli

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  • Dennis Chavez on war

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    “We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.” -Dennis Chavez

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  • H. Rap Brown on war

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    “Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.” -H. Rap Brown

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  • Anna Kendrick on war

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    “People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs people do Civil War re-enactments people do what they like. I’m tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don’t like ‘Twilight,’ don’t buy a ticket.” -Anna Kendrick

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