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If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?

If we’re all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who’s going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?
– Ken Follett

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