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a7777ad
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"A crossbow?" Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans," the man said." --
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weaponry
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Brandon Mull |
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8b04cfa
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It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.
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nations
starvation
war
weaponry
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T.H. White |
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fce8722
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Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.
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learning
weaponry
wolves
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Terry Pratchett |
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In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.
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nuclear-weapons
war
weaponry
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William L. Shirer |
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I came to see the streets and the schools as the arms of the same beast. One enjoyed the official power of the state while the other enjoyed its implicit sanction. But fear and violence were the weaponry of both.
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schools
state
violence
weaponry
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |