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[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.
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... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.
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When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.
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The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
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Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.
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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
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I’m fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.
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By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.
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