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Letter "W" » War
«Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.»
«World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture.»
Author: Caroline Seebohm
| About:
War
| Keywords:
close down, couture, engagement, engagements, European, threatened, tiresome, world war, World War I
«You, men of England, who have no right to this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies you through me, Joan the Maiden, to leave your fortresses and go back to your own country; or I will produce a clash of arms to be eternally remembered. And this is the third and last time I have written to you; I shall not write anything further.»
Author: Joan of Arc
| About:
War
«Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.»
«You would not tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Politics,
War
| Keywords:
commonplace, lock, lock up, tolerate
«You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
prepare, prepare for, prevent, simultaneously
«You killed a hundred thousand people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym!»
«You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
Egypt, Middle East, Syria, The Middle East
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