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If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.

—Pentagon official on why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War

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The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.

—Gil Bailie

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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Lies written in ink cannot obscure a truth written in blood.

—Lu Xun

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The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older — namely, as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

—Hannah Arendt

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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

—Henry Kissinger

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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

—Fred Thompson

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So I take it that your testimony is, there never was a time when Colonel North said that Paul was sending Aran and the Bookkeeper to the Swimming Pool to get a price so that Orange could send some Dogs through Banana to Apple for some Zebras. Is that correct?

—John Saxon, using code names to question a witness at the Iran-Contra hearings

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Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

—Leslie Lever

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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

—Margaret Mead

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

—Dr. Seuss

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Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.

—Howard Thurman

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Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

—Carl Jung

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