“And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.”

— Tupac Shakur

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rapper and actor 1971–1996

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“No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.”

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