War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with la…

H. L. Mencken
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. ✨ 'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. ✨ 'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

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