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War Quotes by John Updike
- To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a…
- Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can…
- Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by…
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- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- Fight to the last gasp. — William Shakespeare
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson