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  1. Herman Wouk _ The Winds of War

    There are no difficulties that can't be overcome,
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  2. Herman Wouk _ The Winds of War

    It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.
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  3. Herman Wouk _ The Winds of War

    There are good and bad things in all political systems.
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  4. Herman Wouk _ The Winds of War

    This game still had its old ritual fascination for Pug; he was following it tensely, smoking a cigar. Once his nostalgia had been keen for the tough youthful combat on the grass, the slamming of bodies, the tricky well-drilled plays, above all for the rare moments of breaking free and sprinting down the field, dodging one man and another with the stands around him a roaring sea of voices. Nothing in his life had since been quite like it. But long ago that nostalgia had departed; those grooves of memory had worn out. To think that lads much younger than his own two sons were out on that chilly field in Philadelphia now, made Victor Henry feel that he had led a very long, multilayered existence, and was now almost a living mummy. "Pug!
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  5. Herman Wouk _ The Winds of War

    Please tell Field Marshal Goring for me, to stick his Swiss bank account up his fat ass.
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  6. Herman Wouk _ The Winds of War

    Tell me, Briny," Natalie said, "are you still having fun?" He looked around at the noisy, crowded, evil-smelling ward, where the Polish women were helplessly bringing new life into a city which was being dynamited to death by the Germans, going through unpostponable birth pangs with the best care the dying city could give them. "More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
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  7. Herman Wouk _ The Winds of War

    He was just head over ears in love, with a young woman as near as his hand and as remote as a star, and for the moment it was enough to be where she was.
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  8. Herman Wouk _ The Winds of War

    The girl you marry and the woman you must make a life with are two different people.
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  9. Herman Wouk _ The Winds of War

    Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.
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