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"I feel an intense pride, Robert, that I live in a country rich enough to have war and peace at the same time."
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"I'm feeling conflicted. Should I go into the military or become a pacifist?"
'I've been speed-reading this book - only took 15 minutes. It's about Russia.'
"How come there aren't any peace heroes?"
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war hero, war heroes, war, peace, monument, monuments, hero, heroes, statue, statues, war and peace, children, child, kid, kids, war memorial, war menorialsIn writing War and Peace, Tolstoy was going for the big laugh, but the more he wrote, the more elusive it became.
'Don't worry, he'll soon grow into it.'
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kid, kids, war and peace, leo tolstoy, baby, babies, present, presents, birthday, birthdays, ambition, ambitions, ambitious, parental pressure, parental pressures, grow, grows, growing up, grows up, parent, parents, parenthood, toddler, toddlersTolstoy and Dostoevsky plan a collaboration: "'War and Punishment'...it''ll make us a fortune."
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky plan a collaboration.
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war and peace, war & peace, leo tolstoy, tolstoy, epic, epics, long book, long books, skeleton, skeletons, end, the end, endings, russian literature, novel, novels, book, books, death, died, life's work, hard read, difficult to read, great literature, classic literature, nineteenth century novel"It's 10 P.M. do you know who might want to gain access to the 50 nuclear weapons the U.S. maintains in Turkey?"