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So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest…
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue,…
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
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Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of…
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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
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No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part…
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There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the…
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Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of…
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It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
— Harry Browne
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The first casualty when war comes is truth.
— Unknown Author
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In time of war the first casualty is truth.
— Unknown Author
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...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to…
— Alec Douglas-Home
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The…
— L. Neil Smith
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When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
— Unknown Author
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In war the first casualty is the truth.
— Aeschylus
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Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
— Jeff Greenfield
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If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed…
— Michael Franti
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Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.
— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
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In war, truth is often the first casualty.
— Winston Churchill
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of…
— Alexander Cockburn
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