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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Never fight an inanimate object. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ↗

— William Dean Howells

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