Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win. ✨ Marg…

Margaret Atwood
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Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2015). Morning in the Burned House, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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