War is not its own

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

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Honesty is the only way

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

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You try to give away

You try to give away what you want yourself.

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If you can't do what

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

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If you want to catch

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

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His mother had often said,

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

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Some prices are just too

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

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I am who I choose

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chosethough not always what I pleased.

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How could you be a

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old

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It was never what I

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

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