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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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  • Christopher Meloni on war

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    “I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic… That to me was funny.” -Christopher Meloni

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  • Shimon Peres on war

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    “That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.” -Shimon Peres

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  • Jane Goodall on war

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    “War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.” -Jane Goodall

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  • Noam Chomsky on war

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    “Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.” -Noam Chomsky

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  • Loren Eiseley on war

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    “Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” -Loren Eiseley

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  • Jane Fonda on war

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    “I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them – active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular – to try and end the war.” -Jane…

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  • Al Pacino on war

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    “My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my…

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  • James Hillman on war

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    “You don’t attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It’s the same thing with psychotherapy.” -James Hillman

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  • Jack Nicklaus on war

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    “This is a game. That’s all it is. It’s not a war.” -Jack Nicklaus

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  • Nancy Pelosi on war

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    “The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.” -Nancy Pelosi

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  • Marvin Gaye on war

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    “War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.” -Marvin Gaye

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  • Wendell Phillips on war

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    “What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.” -Wendell Phillips

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  • Harold Pinter on war

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    “I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.” -Harold Pinter

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  • Terry Eagleton on war

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    “One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.” -Terry Eagleton

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  • Louis Farrakhan on war

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    “What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.” -Louis Farrakhan

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  • Walter Mosley on war

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    “I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.” -Walter Mosley

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  • Saul Bellow on war

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    “There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.” -Saul Bellow

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  • Andrew Cuomo on war

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    “There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.” -Andrew Cuomo

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  • King Abdullah II on war

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    “I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.” -King Abdullah II

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  • Cyril Connolly on war

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    “In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.” -Cyril Connolly

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  • Bob Schieffer on war

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    “The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war…

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  • Dan Rather on war

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    “I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.” -Dan Rather

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  • Julie Burchill on war

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    “There’s something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.” -Julie Burchill

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  • Gary Bauer on war

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    “All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.” -Gary Bauer

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