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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Martha Gellhorn

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Martha Gellhorn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 8
Died: 1998
Died: February 15
Journalist
Novelist
War Correspondent
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Martha Ellis Gellhorn
Watching
Disease
War
Government
Endemic
Human
Carriers
Humans
Carrier
Governments
Lifetime

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