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The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I…
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When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look…
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I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin…
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It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and…
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The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised…
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In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.
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War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of…
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I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If…
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And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority…
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And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their…
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former…
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Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist,
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Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.
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It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.
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...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up…
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Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.
— Robert Duvall
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The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.
— Howard Cosell
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...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.
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