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Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age — it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.
First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal intervent — Daniel Kofman, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civ — Christopher Hitchens
...And unpredictability can spread: one powerful outlier can pave the way for others, and as more states joint the outli — Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the va — David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New — Paul Krugman
The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, — Paul Krugman
Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to — Noam Chomsky
The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking evidence of sincere a — James Fenton
When a human being is born the first thing he does is crying.. The rest of his life he'll spend discovering why... — Erik Tanghe
I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence. — Travis Culliton, Why I love My Prozac
The United States has never been in a united state, it has never been a united state. It never will. Lines on screens an — Justin K. McFarlane Beau
America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend. — Bernard Lewis, The United States and the Middle East
Current public diplomacy and foreign policy making reduces the role of American citizens to mere spectators. The USIA's — Nancy Snow, Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World
Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we wan — it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.
When are we going to stop being afraid to push for change and begin putting into action the things we have discussed for — Tamara Hill
It's important to avoid mirrors if one is unprepared to accept their daily news, and I think, in something as insignific — Rivka Galchen, American Innovations: Stories
Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station a — Werner Herzog, Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Sp — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States. — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays