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I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west. -- Rodney Dangerfield
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Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era. -- Will Ferrell
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die. -- Andrew Taylor Still
During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals! -- Abraham Lincoln
From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived during the Civil War had more in common with Abraham than with us. If Christians are going to speak to that world and interact with it responsibly, they must interact with science. -- J.P. Moreland
The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered and entrenched. They live in mansions, they have jobs in the government, and they're incredibly powerful. In Kabul, people don't want to speak about it too publicly, because these people are essentially like Tony Soprano. -- Khaled Hosseini
I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states! -- Sean Hannity
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right. -- Laura Lippman
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War. -- Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War. -- Douglas Brinkley
Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum]. -- Ken Livingstone
Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War. -- Adam Hochschild
Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period. -- Nat Hentoff
I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s. -- Uzo Aduba

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