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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
    ― Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich
    tags: martyrdom, misattributed-to-albert-camus, pacifism, principles, war
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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: war
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    George Carlin
    “How is it possible to have a civil war?”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: euphemism, funny, humor, terminology, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

    And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.

    "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.

    "Certainly," said man.

    "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.

    And He went away.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
    tags: creation, meaning-of-life, purpose
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”
    ― Buddha
    tags: mission, purpose, work
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
    tags: action, community, daring, loneliness, purpose, youth
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    Thomas Merton
    “If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
    ― Thomas Merton
    tags: destiny, life, purpose
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    J.D. Stroube
    “Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.”
    ― J.D. Stroube, Caged by Damnation
    tags: answers, despair, inspiration, life, meaning, pain, purpose, questions, road, strength, survive
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    Leo Rosten
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
    ― Leo Rosten
    tags: inspirational, purpose, truth
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    Criss Jami
    “If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: adversity, alone, beautiful, compassion, difficulties, finding-oneself, hardship, humanity, loneliness, misunderstanding, pain, sadness, solitude, understanding
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  • #17
    “Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!”
    ― Mutanat Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    tags: inspiration, passion
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: industriousness, inspirational, purpose
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: blessings, drama, empowerment, gratitude, inspirational, life, motivational, purpose, simplify
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.”
    ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
    tags: life, purpose, truth
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    R.J. Anderson
    “I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.”
    ― R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
    tags: cosmos, inspirational, purpose, r-j-anderson, ultraviolet
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    Margaret Atwood
    “What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
    tags: purpose
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Cat: Where are you going?
    Alice: Which way should I go?
    Cat: That depends on where you are going.
    Alice: I don’t know.
    Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: goals, purpose
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don't make it wait any longer.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, change, inspirational, life, mission, motivational, purpose, self-empowerment
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  • #25
    Toba Beta
    “Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: intelligence, purpose, stupidity
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