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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's…
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One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of…
— Jo Brand
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Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding…
— Dominique Pire
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
— James Boswell
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You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which…
— Diana Athill
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John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical…
— Edward Abbey
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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer…
— Studs Terkel
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Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
— Andrew Solomon
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I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.
— Chris Ware
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Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this…
— James Berardinelli
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You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell…
— Eugene B. Sledge
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We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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