"War happens to people, one by one. That……" — Martha Gellhorn

"War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."

— Martha Gellhorn

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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