Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

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"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America."

- Otto von Bismarck

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"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."

- Otto von Bismarck

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

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