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  "text": "You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. \"'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.'\" (p. 106)",
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      "text": "Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy's wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: \"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.\"\n\nAmong the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. (p. 60)",
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      "text": "I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.\n\nI have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that. (p. 19)",
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