"Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
-Otto von Bismarck
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"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
-Otto von Bismarck
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"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."
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"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."
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"To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making."
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"Politics is the art of the possible."
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"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."
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"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
-John Desmond Bernal
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