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This week's theme: words about war.

polemology (po-luh-MOL-uh-jee) noun

   The science and study of human conflict and war.

[From Greek, polemos (war) + -logy (study).]

-Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org)

  "Polemology begins, in other words, with a frank recognition of the
   overpowering superiority of the strong over the weak, and thus of the
   likelihood of defeat."
   Simon Joyce; Resisting Arrest/Arresting Resistance; Criticism (Detroit);
   Spring 1995.

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Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son.
The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief.
But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he
saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other
child. -Lao-tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE)

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