Top Causes Quotes
This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the Civil War and the Second World War. But 1861 and 1941 each created a common nati...
George Packer
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war, goals, civil war, 9 11, consensus, causes, world war ii, 9 11 10th anniversary, national narrative
Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to let the genie out of problematic bottles in the firs...
Erik Pevernagie
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relationships, neighbor, wise, identify, beware, subliminal, emotional, causes, profiling, bottles
In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly tho...
Christopher Hitchens
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death, war, martyrdom, causes, churchill, bosnia, bosnian war, bullets, sarajevo, near death experience
Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had r...
Christopher Hitchens
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death, patriotism, religion, war, friends, suicide, sacrifice, martyrdom, christianity, childhood