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  • Socrates on wedding

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    “My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” -Socrates

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  • Barbara de Angelis on wedding

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    “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.” -Barbara de Angelis

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  • George Wald on war

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    “All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.” -George Wald

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  • Talib Kweli on war

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    “War is not civilized.” -Talib Kweli

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  • Dana Rohrabacher on war

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    “And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.” -Dana Rohrabacher

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  • John Salazar on war

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    “How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won’t take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.” -John Salazar

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  • Jason Mraz on war

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    “Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.” -Jason Mraz

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  • Michael Ondaatje on war

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    “That’s Anil’s path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.” -Michael Ondaatje

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  • Jeff Goodell on war

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    “Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.” -Jeff Goodell

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  • Nathan Fillion on war

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    “I’m actually reading ‘World War Z’ again! It’s incredibly realistic and it’s written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It’s incredible. When I finish ‘World War Z’ I’m going to go back and start again on…

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  • George Soros on war

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    “Bush’s war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.” -George Soros

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  • Puff Daddy on war

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    “I’m against all war.” -Puff Daddy

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  • Bob Hawke on war

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    “My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven’t improved Australia’s security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.” -Bob Hawke

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  • Bianca Jagger on war

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    “Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.” -Bianca Jagger

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  • Germaine Greer on war

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    “The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.” -Germaine Greer

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  • Muqtada al Sadr on war

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    “No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their…

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  • Victor Cousin on war

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    “All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.” -Victor Cousin

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  • Chelsea Clinton on war

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    “I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.” -Chelsea Clinton

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  • Ben Barnes on war

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    “I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.” -Ben Barnes

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  • Jane Seymour on war

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    “No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, ‘Ode to Lovely War,’ and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn’t sell me as Joyce…

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  • Robert Walpole on war

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    “I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.” -Robert Walpole

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  • Jon Huntsman, Jr. on war

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    “We’re fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It’s a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.” -Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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  • Sheryl Crow on war

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    “I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.” -Sheryl Crow

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  • Rupert Everett on war

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    “You cannot be politically correct in a war.” -Rupert Everett

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  • Michael Haneke on war

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    “And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be ‘Civil War’ – not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.” -Michael Haneke

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