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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 dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long…
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its…
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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for…
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Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is…
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The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings…
— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the…
— Howard Zinn
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Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
— Henri Nouwen
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Dont bring a candlelight vigil to a gunfight
— David Burge
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The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true…
— William McFee
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I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I…
— Frank James
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To look back is to relax one's vigil.
— Bette Davis
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