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The world has turned upside down. The best golfer in the world is black; the best rapper in the world is white; and now there is a war and, guess what, Germany doesn't want to be in it.
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I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war.
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I generally assume that childhoods more or less ended with the First World War.... Anyone born after 1940 got the Utility version, childhood according to the Authorized Economy Standard.
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Headmaster: I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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May 9, 1934
(age 91)
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