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War Quotes by John le Carre
- During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
- I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
- In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war…
- It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just…
- The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
- There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.
- Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern…
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