"War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation."

-- Madeline Taylor

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“Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.”
“I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.”
“I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment.”
“Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.”
“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
“As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.”
“If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.”
“Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?”

Source : Karl Jay Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow (1998). “The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late”, p.7, University of Illinois Press

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