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"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,252 people liked it

""Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day."
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3"
— Erich Maria Remarque

tags: war
5 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,817 people liked it

"War is just demographics in a hurry."
— Gary Brecher (The War Nerd)

tags: demographics, war
4 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
6,839 people liked it

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
864 people liked it

"Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come."
— Carl Sandburg

tags: peace, war
7 people liked it

"You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up."
— Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

tags: books, reading
742 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,265 people liked it

"My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads."
— A.J. Jacobs (The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible)

tags: humor, reading
81 people liked it

"if humans could have one super power, what would it be? I have finally decided that it would be the power to see things from another's perspective- You could be in a war and hear the enemy's mind praying to make it home safe. There wouldn't be as many wars"
— Hallie Geier

tags: inspirational, war
7 people liked it

"As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!"
— Jan Karon

tags: books, literacy, reading
35 people liked it

"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Chronicle of a Death Foretold)

tags: war
11 people liked it

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,640 people liked it

"'To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths."
— Stuart Hill (The Cry Of The Icemark)

tags: war
14 people liked it

"War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate"
— Marvin Gaye

tags: inspirational, love, war
8 people liked it

"People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: literature, novels, reading
26 people liked it

"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: war
95 people liked it

"I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I do not feel it. I believe in God even when He is silent."
— Inscribed on cellar walls during the Holocaust in Cologne, Germany

tags: faith, god, inspirational, war
29 people liked it

"War is not nice."
— Barbara Bush

tags: dumb, war
14 people liked it

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: budget, government, guns, military, politics, poverty, war, weapons
91 people liked it

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. "
— W.C. Fields

tags: humor, sinister
1,988 people liked it

"Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?"
— Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995)

tags: army, fighting, peace, soldiers, war
128 people liked it

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
— Voltaire

tags: double, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, standards, war
120 people liked it

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
1,808 people liked it

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
1,887 people liked it

"No one is so foolish as to prefer war to peace, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons."
— Herodotus (The Histories)

tags: peace, war
17 people liked it

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
— John Steinbeck

tags: politics, war
132 people liked it

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
— Edward R. Murrow

tags: bush, civil, doctrine, rights, war
22 people liked it

"'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam)

tags: love
2,122 people liked it

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."
— Herbert Hoover

tags: age, death, fighting, old, war, youth
196 people liked it

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, humor
1,952 people liked it

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
192 people liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
1,922 people liked it

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
— Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war
367 people liked it

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
2,081 people liked it

"War is what happens when language fails."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: war
326 people liked it

"Of all the things about me that could frighten you, you worry about my driving?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: driving, humor
1,437 people liked it

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)

tags: sympathy
1,701 people liked it

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
2,325 people liked it

"In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own."
— Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)

tags: books, reading, travel
26 people liked it

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

tags: it-s-so-true
2,246 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,408 people liked it

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
1,623 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,413 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,612 people liked it

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: opportunity, optimism, pessimism
1,682 people liked it

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friends
2,212 people liked it

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— e.e. cummings

tags: courage
2,216 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,665 people liked it

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