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• All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers .
  .. Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born....
• All wars are ironic because all wars are worse than expected.
• To a Europe exhausted by nearly two centuries of religious wars, [Isaac] Newton's works were first and foremost a message about God
  that He did not behave in a capricious or arbitrary fashion, in response to either His will or human prayer, but in accordance with absolute, unwavering, and humanly discoverable laws of nature which governed him and all his works....
• Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much -- the wheel
  New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time....
• It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.
  For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time....
• effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Well, one thing's for sure: we're all going to be a lot thinner! -- Han Solo (Star Wars)