# Quote — Gertrude Stein, Wars I Have Seen

> Now they can do the radio in so many languages that nobody any longer dreams of a single language, and there should not any longer be dreams of conquest because the globe is all one, anybody can hear everything and everybody can hear the same thing, so what is the use of conquering.

- Author: [Gertrude Stein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein.md)
- Book: [Wars I Have Seen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein/wars-i-have-seen.md)
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> Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

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> A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

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> War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

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