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Old 11-08-2010, 08:07 AM   #869
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Hit that nail on the head, didn't he?
.....Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [peace] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
..........— Alfred [Bernhard] Nobel (1833-1896), Swedish chemist, engineer, munitions manufacturer, philanthropist. To Bertha von Suttner, peace congress, Switzerland (1892). Quoted in The Great Thoughts (1985, Introduction and a new compilation © 1996 by David Laskin) by George Seldes.
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