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• They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
• I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of…
• To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a…
• Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and…
• Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on…
• If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you…
• There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what…
• Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of…
• ...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that…
• ...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
• I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the…
• 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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