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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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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I made all my generals out of mud.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
— Leonard Cohen
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As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their…
— Duke of Wellington
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Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!
— George III
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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but…
— Mark Twain
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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:…
— Sun Tzu
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Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.
— Zhuge Liang
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the…
— Sun Tzu
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When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
— Duke of Wellington
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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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