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A Farewell To Arms

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SteveMR200

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Oct 2, 2010, 8:00:00 PM10/2/10
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As soon as the spirit of exploitation is gone,
armaments will be felt as a positive unbearable
burden. Real disarmament cannot come unless the
nations of the world cease to exploit one another.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
(In Richard Attenborough's _The Words of
Gandhi_ [1982], "Peace")

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Steve

PollyC

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Oct 5, 2010, 4:57:21 AM10/5/10
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On 3/10/2010 10:30 AM, SteveMR200 wrote:
> As soon as the spirit of exploitation is gone,
> armaments will be felt as a positive unbearable
> burden. Real disarmament cannot come unless the
> nations of the world cease to exploit one another.
> --Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

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The belief that it is possible to achieve security through armaments
on a national scale is a disastrous illusion - in the last analysis the
peaceful coexistence of peoples is primarily dependent upon mutual trust....
~ Albert Einstein 1879-1955 quoted in Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden
(eds), Einstein on Peace (1960)

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SteveMR200

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On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:27:21 +1030, PollyC wrote in message:
<_JBqo.1084$hz6...@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com>:

>The belief that it is possible to achieve security through armaments
>on a national scale is a disastrous illusion - in the last analysis the
>peaceful coexistence of peoples is primarily dependent upon mutual trust....
>~ Albert Einstein 1879-1955 quoted in Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden (eds),
> Einstein on Peace (1960)

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
_Poor Richard's Almanac_ [July 1733]

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Steve

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