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There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
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Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is…
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Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
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The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the…
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If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to…
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Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
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If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
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How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
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To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
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There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
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In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas…
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I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning…
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I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and…
— Emir Kusturica
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
— Paddy Ashdown
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I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning…
— Michael Ignatieff
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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.
— Adnan
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We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the…
— Warren Christopher
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total…
— Orson Welles
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Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether that be…
— Josip Broz Tito
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But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the…
— Chris Bohjalian
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The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians,…
— Henry Grunwald
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