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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)

    “... But if you shrink from being scared,
    What would you say to war if it should come?
    That’s what for reasons I should like to know
    If you can comfort me by any answer.”
    “Oh, but war’s not for children it’s for men.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    ... peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.
    Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)