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“Only a fool loves war. Or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.”

“All legends have a base in fact.”

“By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism.”

“This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.”

“Never let anger, or outrage, or fear affect you. That is easy advice to give, but hard to follow. Men will bait you, they will laugh at you, they will jeer. But it is just noise, Kiall. They will hurt the people you love. They will do anything to make you angry or emotional. But the only way you can make them suffer is to win. And to do that you must remain cool.”

“Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.”

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Entertainment1930–2018

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"If the knowledge of 'Aishah were to be gathered up and compared to the knowledge of all the other wives of the Prophet and all other women, 'Aishah's knowledge would be greater."

— Hazrat Aisha (R.A.)

Politics613–678

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"If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be created."

— Kenneth Waltz

Science1924–2013

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"...It's a melting pot. You get a chance to grow up around so many different — you know, I've grown up in good neighborhoods, bad neighborhoods, worse neighborhoods. But growing up around so many cultu…"

— Pitbull (rapper)

Music1981

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