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As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
— Leo Tolstoy
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
— George Orwell
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Admit it. Even though you know the other person can’t see you, you still nod in agreement while talking on the phone. You gesture. You gesticulate. You communicate in a medium destined never to be communicated. That extra set of meanings dies a local, meaningless death.