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I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.
David Morrell
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.


Aaron Huey
I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
Ernest Hemingway
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.


Napoleon Hill
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There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.


Martin McGuinness
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.


William Hazlitt
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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.


Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
Sean Lennon
Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.
Lyn Nofziger
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
Robert Ballard
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
Alvin Adams
Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
Zach Wamp
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Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Daniel Pipes
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.


Niccolo Machiavelli
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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
William McKinley
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
Palaniappan Chidambaram
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It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
John Boyd Orr
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Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
Roger Ebert
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