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  • Lech Walesa on war

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    “The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.” -Lech Walesa

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  • Jay Leno on war

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    “The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow ‘Operation Re-elect Bush’ doesn’t seem to be popular.” -Jay Leno

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  • James Lovelock on war

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    “If it hadn’t been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.” -James Lovelock

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  • Sammy Davis, Jr. on war

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    “I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon’s urgings for me to go there.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.

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  • James Buchan on war

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    “Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.” -James Buchan

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  • Margaret Sanger on war

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    “War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.” -Margaret Sanger

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  • Peter Yarrow on war

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    “We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.” -Peter Yarrow

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  • Elizabeth Gilbert on war

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    “As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World…

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  • Denzel Washington on war

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    “Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.” -Denzel Washington

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  • Buffalo Bill on war

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    “My mother’s sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.” -Buffalo Bill

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  • Harry Bridges on war

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    “There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.” -Harry Bridges

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  • Joel Silver on war

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    “There aren’t a lot of guys like me left. But I’m a war horse. I’ve been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.” -Joel Silver

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  • Russell Baker on war

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    “Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven’s sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.” -Russell Baker

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  • George H. W. Bush on war

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    “One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.” -George H. W. Bush

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  • Sarah Palin on war

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    “Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren’t civil war, they are democracy at work, and that’s beautiful.” -Sarah Palin

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  • Lewis Thomas on war

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    “Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.” -Lewis Thomas

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  • Rebecca West on war

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    “Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.” -Rebecca West

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  • Arlen Specter on war

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    “My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.” -Arlen Specter

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  • Daniel Craig on war

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    “I can’t go to war with paparazzi.” -Daniel Craig

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  • Bill Shuster on war

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    “America’s veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today’s Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress’ action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.” -Bill Shuster

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  • Michelle Malkin on war

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    “9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.” -Michelle Malkin

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  • Clive Owen on war

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    “The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren’t traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really…

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  • Gus Van Sant on war

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    “The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our ‘me’ generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.” -Gus Van Sant

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  • Howard Zinn on war

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    “When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their interests in mind, they’re more susceptible to go to war.” -Howard Zinn

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  • John Cusack on war

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    “I remember the ’80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.” -John Cusack

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