How many wars have been ...

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
 Charles Dudley Warner

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

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Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
 Charles Dudley Warner
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
 Charles Dudley Warner
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
 Charles Dudley Warner
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
 Charles Dudley Warner
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.
 Charles Dudley Warner