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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Director
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.
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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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