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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too. Five minutes after a person is dead he's on his way to the Big Flue, the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country. Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriams. Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.”
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“You cannot fight terrorism with terrorism.”
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“Legacy. What is a legacy?
It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.”
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It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.”
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“All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.”
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