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«The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance - and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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