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The banjo is mightier than the sword. — bumper sticker

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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. — bumper sticker

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I love my country, but I think we should start seeing other people. — bumper sticker

Eskimo proverb

You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks. — Eskimo proverb

Barbara Brown Taylor

I do not know any way to talk about answered prayer without sounding like a huckster or a honeymooner. When someone wants to tell me how God has answered prayer, those are the first two possibilities that occur to me, anyway: 1) This person wants to sell me something, or 2) This person is not quite sober yet. — Barbara Brown Taylor

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Spirituality doesn't make hospice calls. — bumper sticker

William Sloan Coffin

A]s the great French writer Albert Camus once suggested, there is in the world beauty, and there are the humiliated, and we must strive, hard as it is, not to be unfaithful either to the one or to the other. — William Sloan Coffin

William Sloan Coffin

W]hen I addressed people as I used to frequently in the peace movement, there would be, in the last 10 years, always somebody saying, “I am so disillusioned.” Well, being old now, I can be forthright and say, “Who the hell gave you the right to have illusions in the first place?” We have no right to have illusions. So we have only ourselves to chastise when we feel disillusioned. — William Sloan Coffin

Major General Smedley Butler, US Marines

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Major General Smedley Butler, US Marines

George Orwell

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. — George Orwell