We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.
("Captain Corelli's Mandolin")
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I have been driven to search everywhere just to find myself mentioned. I am mentioned almost nowhere, but where I find myself, I find myself condemned.
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People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
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No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
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