"Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight."

-- Michael Morpurgo

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“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.”
“Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.”
“There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it was no use blaming the rocks.”
“Evil is a point of view.”
“You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.”
“There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.”
“Work is the best thing to make us love life.”
“Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.”

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