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		There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. C. Watts
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Who are you and who am I To say we know the reason why Some are born, some men die, Beneath one infinite sky? There'll be war, there'll be peace, But everything one day will cease, All the iron turned to rust, All the proud men turned to dust, And so all things time will mend, So this song will end.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Gilmour
			
			
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		'Heaven's Gate' was based on a true story about the cattle people: the people who had the money turned on the settlers who were in the area. And it was mainly a defense of their behavior. And the cattlemen's association had just about declared war on these people who were poaching cattle, and because they were mainly immigrants.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kris Kristofferson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barbara W. Tuchman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James McBride
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Lovelock
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Hicks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Benioff
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Manuel Moroun
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Abbie Hoffman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gaylord Nelson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Spanish-American War has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favored by that Fortune that loves the brave. It is now to be concluded, I hope, with that fine good nature, which is, after all, the distinguishing trait of the American character.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Hay
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		'They have nothing in their entire arsenal to break the spirit of one single Republican prisoner-of-war who refuses to be broken,' I thought, and that was very true. They cannot or never will break our spirit.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bobby Sands
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's a rare pro-lifer who is against the death penalty, who's against all war, who favors, you know, all the things people need to flourish and stay healthy in life. They've tied themselves to the Republican Party, which doesn't support any of that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Katha Pollitt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Abani
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Luis Alberto Urrea