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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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I'm an interpreter of music.
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that…
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The best interpreter of the law is custom.
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Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature;…
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed…
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Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,…
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