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Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or peace:

    ... we Northerners have become too much driven by the idea that in twenty years we will live, not now: because by that time our savings and the accrued interest will make it possible.
    Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)

    From the beginning, the placement of [Clarence] Thomas on the high court was seen as a political end justifying almost any means. The full story of his confirmation raises questions not only about who lied and why, but, more important, about what happens when politics becomes total war and the truth—and those who tell it—are merely unfortunate sacrifices on the way to winning.
    Jane Mayer, U.S. journalist, and Jill Abramson b. 1954, U.S. journalist. Strange Justice, p. 8, Houghton Mifflin (1994)

    The time of universal peace is near.
    Prove this a prosp’rous day, the three-nooked world
    Shall bear the olive freely.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)