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

    Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
    Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)