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Jesse James - The Determination of the James Brothers

Jailer: I don't know if you gents know it or not, but well, both these James boys does things.

McCoy: What are you driving at?

Jailer: I've known Frank James a long time, and when he says he aims to do somethin', he's liable to come purdy near doin it.

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All Quiet on the Western Front - The Nature of Conflict Between Nations

Tjaden: Well, how do they start a war?

Soldier #1: Well, one country offends another.

Tjaden: How could one country offend another? You mean there's a mountain over in Germany gets mad at a field over in France?

Soldier #1: Well, stupid. One people offends another.

Tjaden: Oh, that's it. I shouldn't be here at all. I don't feel offended.

Katczinsky: It don't apply to tramps like you.

Tjaden: Good. Then I can be going home right away...The Kaiser and me...Me and the Kaiser felt just alike about this war. We didn't neither of us want any war, so I'm going home. He's there already.

Soldier #1: Somebody must have wanted it. Maybe it was the English. No, I don't want to shoot any Englishman. I never saw one til I came up here. And I suppose most of them never saw a German til they came up here. No, I'm sure they weren't asked about it.

Soldier #2: Well, it must be doing somebody some good.

Tjaden: Not me and the Kaiser.

Soldier #1: I think maybe the Kaiser wanted a war.

Tjaden: You leave us out of this.

Katczinsky: I don't see that. The Kaiser's got everything he needs.

Soldier #1: Well, he never had a war before. Every full-grown Emperor needs one war to make him famous. Why, that's history.

Paul: Yeah, Generals too. They need war.

Soldier #3: And manufacturers. They get rich.

Soldier #1: Nobody wants it in particular. And then all at once, here it is. We didn't want it. The English didn't want it. And here we are fighting.

Katczinsky: I'll tell ya how it should all be done. Whenever there's a big war comin on, you should rope off a big field.

Soldier #1: And sell tickets.

Katczinsky: Yeah, and, and, on the big day, you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put them in the center dressed in their underpants and let em fight it out with clubs. The best country wins.

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All Quiet on the Western Front - Desperation for Food in Hard Times

Paul: You see, we haven't eaten since breakfast, we thought maybe you could tell us what we ought to do about it.

Tjaden: Eat without further delay. It's a bad town to bring an appetite to, soldier. We've been here since yesterday morning and we've been living on a bale of hay and razor blades.

All Quiet on the Western Front - The Last Soldier's Fate

Tjaden: [''of Katczinsky''] If he were out, the war would be over. You remember what he always said: They're savin him for the last.

All Quiet on the Western Front - On the Nature of Replacements in War

Tjaden: Replacements are all like that. Not even old enough to carry a pack. All they know how to do is die.

All Quiet on the Western Front - Loss of sustenance in harsh conditions

Tjaden: There used to be some food in the sawdust. Now it's all sawdust. No joke either.

All Quiet on the Western Front - Anticipating the Reality of War

Tjaden: [''to Paul on his return''] It's gonna be a real war again.

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