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They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
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I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of…
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a…
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Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and…
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on…
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If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you…
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what…
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of…
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...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that…
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...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
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I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the…
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars…
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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,…
— Anna Quindlen
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Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
— Richard Dawkins
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It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,…
— Richard Dawkins
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of…
— Howard Zinn
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
— John Ruskin
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In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
— James Meade
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
— Dean Koontz
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
— Voltaire
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The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as…
— Thomas Merton
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To great evils we submit; yet we resent little provocations.
— William Hazlitt
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To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations
— William Hazlitt
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