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It wasn’t even so much that I wanted to be a reporter. I’d always been interested in wars and insurgencies, particularly obscure countries and insurgencies. But I was also, at that point, really interested in survival. Why some people survive and other people don’t. Why two people growing up in a family, why one of them—why I survived and why my brother didn’t.

— Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern Comes Again

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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

— Ronald Reagan, Remembering Ronald Reagan

Wars Deterrence

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Words of mine, words of yours, confusing rhymes and confusing wars. Between words of love and words of hate, wars of dreams and wars of fate.

— Tyler Joseph, Hear Me Now

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Some wars are necessary.

— John Smith, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Three Monkeys

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Listen up—there's no war that will end all wars . . . War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

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Why do people wage war? Why do hundreds of thousands, even millions of people group together and try to annihilate each other? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit?

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

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If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

— Harry S Truman, via www.trumanlibrary.org

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Everything in every way has been begun and completed and then forgotten over and over, in this world, — to be begun and completed and forgotten again, and so on to the end of the chapter. No one nation is better than another in this respect, — there is, there can be nothing new.

— Marie Corelli, Thelma

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The wars were so long ago, nobody even remembers. Darkness and fear ruled until the time of the barons, seven men and women who forged order out of chaos. People flocked to them for protection. That protection became servitude. They banished guns and trained armies of lethal fighters they called Clippers. This world is built on blood. Nobody is innocent here. Welcome to the Badlands.

— M.K. (Aramis Knight), Into the Badlands, Season 1: The Fort

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Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

— Tywin Lannister, A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)

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Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.

— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

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— Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern Comes Again

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

— Ronald Reagan, Remembering Ronald Reagan

Words of mine, words of yours, confusing rhymes and confusing wars. Between words of love and words of hate, wars of dreams and wars of fate.

— Tyler Joseph, Hear Me Now

Some wars are necessary.

— John Smith, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Three Monkeys

Listen up—there's no war that will end all wars . . . War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

Why do people wage war? Why do hundreds of thousands, even millions of people group together and try to annihilate each other? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit?

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

— Harry S Truman, via www.trumanlibrary.org

Everything in every way has been begun and completed and then forgotten over and over, in this world, — to be begun and completed and forgotten again, and so on to the end of the chapter. No one nation is better than another in this respect, — there is, there can be nothing new.

— Marie Corelli, Thelma

— M.K. (Aramis Knight), Into the Badlands, Season 1: The Fort

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

— Tywin Lannister, A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)

— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories