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Never in human history have so many died for so little reason.
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The quote says that, at no other time in human history, has such a large number of people died for such a small or inadequate reason. It presents the deaths as especially tragic because the cause seemed too minor to justify the scale of the loss, though it does not identify the people or event involved.
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