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war is not just a victory or loss ... People die. -- Maya Lin
Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war. -- Toba Beta
At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain. -- Randal Cremer
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return. -- Simon Sinek
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come. -- Boris Trajkovski
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.' -- Edward Herrmann
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure. -- George Kennedy
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. -- Smedley Butler
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes. -- Virginia Foxx
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. --
I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- Dave Reichert
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands. -- Nong Duc Manh
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. -- Franjo Tudjman
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002. -- Daniel Yergin
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. -- Gustav Stresemann
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. -- John Vinocur
Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war. -- John Bright
Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses. -- John Warner
I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' -- Richard C. Armitage
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?' -- Tom Hiddleston
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives. -- Adam Hochschild
My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a loved one to cancer. I wrote my book 'Gracefully Gone' about my father's fight and my struggle growing up with an ill parent. I wrote it to help others know they are not alone in this all-too-often insurmountable war against cancer. -- Alicia Coppola
The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother -- Anna Freud
In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning. -- John McPhee
No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider -- PureDragonWolf
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins. -- Brock Chisholm
The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. -- Leonid Andreyev
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own. -- Philip Caputo
The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln. -- Warren Adler
This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing. -- Ann Aguirre
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. -- Charles Caleb Colton

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