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• Rappers can't sleep, need sleepin',
  B.I.G. keep creepin',
  Bullets heat-seekin',
  Casualties need treatin',
  Dumb rappers need teachin'.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Rap, Sleep, Hip Hop

  Song: Unbelieveable

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• Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I wish to express, on behalf of the Chinese Government and people, our deepest sympathy and solicitude to you and, through you, to the Government and people of the United States. I wish also to extend our condolences to the families of the victims. The Chinese Government has consistently condemned and rejected all forms of terrorist violence.

  Jiang Zemin

  New York, Condolences, Cities

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• In war the first casualty is the truth.

  Aeschylus

  War, Political, Politics

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• By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties, and end combat operations as soon as possible. These are provisions recognized by almost all authorities on international jurisprudence.

  Bhikkhu Bodhi

  Party, Trying, Jurisprudence

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• If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed and family member killed, we are not creating goodwill and harmony, but rather another child who believes violence is the only means to bring about change in the world.

  Michael Franti

  Children, Wall, War

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• Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.

  Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

  War, Firsts, Said

  "Truth and the War". Book by Edmund Dene Morel. Introduction, p. 9, 1916.

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• A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Cooking, Example

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Men, you are in a battle. You are in a war. The stakes of this war and its casualties are higher than a checkmark in the win or loss column. Lives will be lost. Eternities will be shaped. Destinies will either be discovered or dismissed. Dreams will be attained or relinquished.

  Tony Evans

  Dream, War, Loss

  Tony Evans (2012). “Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream”, p.9, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Compared with the Somme or an evening in the Blitz, the Valley of Death was a piece of cake.

  Simon Heffer

  Horse, Men, Cake

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• We should never allow presentation to become a casualty of method.

  Tommy Wonder

  Magic, Should, Method

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• Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, People, Political

  "Our Duty Is to Remember Sichuan". www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2009.

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• Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

  Daniel Goleman

  Bystanders, Toxic, Emotion

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, p.14, Random House

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• In war, truth is often the first casualty.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Interesting, Firsts

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• When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Educational, Book

  Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.121, Penguin

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• As the mask of deception falls off the face of humanity
  Unveiling the grim reality of duality
  In which everyone is a casualty, no one will be exempt
  Truth has many shades
  It's not a matter of black and white, but gray
  Although many, we are one, so in the final analysis
  Could it be that we are fighting a war that can't be won?

  Morgan Freeman

  War, Fall, Fighting

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• How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

  Price Pritchett

  Trust, Everyday, Littles

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• Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

  Walter Raleigh

  Loss, Men, Damage

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• Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

  Bruce Catton

  War, History, Shiloh

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• First of all, it is clear that our efforts in Korea can blunt the will of the Chinese Communists to continue the struggle. The United Nations forces have put up a tremendous fight in Korea and have inflicted very heavy casualties on the enemy. Our forces are stronger now than they have been before. These are plain facts which may discourage the Chinese Communists from continuing their attack.

  Harry S. Truman

  Struggle, Fighting, Usa

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

  Plutarch

  Son, Men, Riches

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• The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

  Boris Trajkovski

  War, Loss, Years

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• I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Usa, Troops

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 27, 2017.

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• "Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Peace, Military, War

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.

  Ann Coulter

  War, People, Hell

  "Ann Coulter on Iraq and Immigration". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 4, 2005.

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