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Mary McDonnell

Mary McDonnell

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Birthday April 28, 1952

Birthplace Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Television Actor, Film Actor, Stage Actor

Spouse Randle Mell

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President Laura Roslin

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Though in war, you can only get killed once. In politics it can happen over and over.

— President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), Battlestar Galactica, Season 1: Colonial Day

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It is crazy perhaps, but that doesn't mean it isn't true.

— President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), Battlestar Galactica, Season 1: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part 1

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I have no interest in peace. Peace is a dirty word.

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We are sustained by the deepest conviction that ideas are worth more than weapons, no matter how sophisticated and powerful those weapons may be.

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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

— Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.

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I wonder what will happen to us—to people like you and me—when there are no more wars to occupy us?

— German Colonel (Philip Rham), Band of Brothers, Season 1: Points

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The difference between love and war inform me.

— Mac Miller, The Star Room (Watching Movies with the Sound Off (Deluxe Edition)

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In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.

— Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 1: Uzumaki Naruto

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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

— H. L. Mencken, The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism

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Tell me who defends you, and I will tell you who you are! Tell me who attacks you, and I will tell you who you are!

— Fidel Castro, Speech to the OLAS Conference

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I play the long game. When I'm finally let out of this cage, it won't be to wage war. It will be to win one.

— Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio), Marvel's Daredevil, Season 2: Seven Minutes in Heaven

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All is fair in love and war.

— John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Euphues and His England (Classic Reprint)

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If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

— Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

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400,000: Americans who died fighting in World War II.

400,000: Americans who died by household Firearms since 2001.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com

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What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me.

— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars

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beyond the horizon
war machines of my countrymen
rain fire and death down on the homes
of men, their engines roaring "freedom"
across the land to end terror,
never uttering the word "empire,"
and there is nothing that I can do.

— Kelly Talbot, The First American

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Who fears death when you have nowhere else to go?

— Allyson Whipple, La Bestia

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Every question I asked implied that the creators of the atomic bomb had been criminal accessories to murder most foul.

— Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Craddle

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Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.

— Meg Cabot, Royal Wedding: A Princess Diaries Novel

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It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

— Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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When Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island, he said that Muhammad Ali gave him hope that the walls would some day come tumbling down.

— Dave Zirin, ‘I Just Wanted to Be Free’: The Radical Reverberations of Muhammad Ali

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The beauty of her face started the greatest war man has ever known.

— Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

— Veronica Roth, Insurgent (Divergent Series)

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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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