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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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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
— Jane Austen
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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods…
— Albert Camus
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The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means…
— George Stillman Hillard
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Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.
— Thomas Browne
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think…
— George Santayana
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the…
— Louis Pasteur
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The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
— Rene Dubos
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Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay…
— Charles Tilly
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Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is…
— Rajneesh
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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
— Emmet Fox
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The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its…
— A. V. Dicey
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Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure…
— Andre-Marie Ampere
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