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When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.
Oriana Fallaci
Life
War
Me
You
Trust
Living
Correspondent
All Your Life
Born
Develop
Like
Ready
Always
Been
Trust Me
Child
Die
Form
War Correspondent
Your
Wars
Fatalism
If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
Pat Buchanan
People
Will
Country
Know
How
Came
Forgets
Where
Who
No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.
Pat Buchanan
World
No-One
America
Play
Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.
Pat Buchanan
Giving
Back
Ukraine
East
Netanyahu
More
Could
Jordan
Putin
Returning
Survive
Than
Jerusalem
That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
Pat Buchanan
Judge
Matter
President
States
Security
Border
Would
Border Security
District
Absurd
Wartime
United
United States
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Paul Harvey
Today
Better
Tomorrow
Will
Pessimist
Every
Has-Been
Always
Been
Than
Buried
Who
Lived
Ever
Grave
Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves.
Paul Johnson
Best
Great
Me
Women
Opportunities
Men
Men And Women
Encouragement
Think
Indeed
Characterized
Great Men
Students
Attended
Study
Leads
Schools
How
Provide
Them
Themselves
Much
Teach
Who
Extent
Universities
I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.
Peaches Geldof
Life
Me
Hate
My Life
All My Life
Haunted
Weird
Name
Names
Ridiculous
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
Pete Hamill
Library
Money
Imagination
Those
Road
House
Without
Begins
Public
Public Library
Treasure
The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.
Pete Hamill
War
Business
World
Police
Ideology
Negativity
Anarchist
Out
Except
Had
Faded
Drove
Permanent
Go
Off
Them
Away
Nowhere
World War
World War I
Set
Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.
Pete Hamill
War
Own
Everybody
Extraordinarily
Carries
Logistical
Percent
Only
Pursuing
Support
Combat
His
Version
American
Heavy
Vietnam
Engaged
Vietnamese
Who
Elephant
Her
The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.
Pete Hamill
Jews
Marrying
Both
Until
Italians
Irish
Them
Then
Fought
Started
The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Catholics, Jews, and blacks. They were prone to violence.
Pete Hamill
Group
Jews
States
Hated
Prone
Blacks
Klan
Almost
Most
Catholics
Terrorist
Were
Years
Successful
United
United States
Violence
Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
Peter Jennings
Life
You
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Boot
About
Courteous
Always
Need
The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
Peter Jennings
Day
Labor Day
November
Out
Stayed
Been
Historically
Labor
Front
Candidate
Who
We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.
Peter Utley
Cries
Out
Scandal
Excess
Never
Use
Search
I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.
Philip Gibbs
War
Peace
Fight
Women
Fear
Will
France
Shall
Make
Without
Am
Go
End
Going
Little
Socialist
Sleep
During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.
Philip Gibbs
War
News
Conflict
Months
Between
Opinion
Foreign
Office
Front
Regarding
Early
But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.
Philip Gibbs
Love
War
You
Hate
Sorry
France
Shall
Glad
Put
Do You Know
Know
Because
Germans
Die
Ask
Us
Who
Why
It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.
Rachel Maddow
People
Long
Own
Different Opinions
Fighting
Think
Out
About
Follows
Facts
Had
Nobody
Over
Accept
Calls
Opinions
Were
Sources
Trail
Authority
Establish
Different
Them
Used
Now
Credibility
Basic
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
Rachel Maddow
Financial
Burden
Military
Colonists
Maintaining
Massive
Exist
America
Militarism
Rejected
British
If you don't like Scottish weather, wait 30 minutes, and it is likely to change.
Raymond Bonner
You
Change
Wait
Weather
Minutes
Like
Likely
Scottish
Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people's online activities and identities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Facebook
People
Country
India
Physical
Able
Online
Over
Identities
Executives
Exercise
Governance
May
Jail
Tax
Form
After
China
China And India
Inhabitants
Engineers
Users
Population
Activities
Million
Third
Programmers
Trade shows such as the wire tappers' ball are highly secretive and ban journalists from attending. None of the U.S. agencies that attended the wire tappers' ball - including the FBI, the Secret Service, and every branch of the military - were willing to comment when a reporter queried them about their attendance.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Service
Military
Every
Secret
Secretive
Willing
About
Wire
Attendance
Attended
Attending
Highly
Journalists
Trade
Ball
None
Were
Ban
Comment
Branch
Reporter
Them
Agencies
Shows
Including
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Good
Censorship
Argument
Bad
Moral
About
More
More Or Less
Quickly
Pious
Accusation
Patriotic
Whether
Less
Who
As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.
Rebecca MacKinnon
You
Vote
Citizen
Community
Outcome
Direction
Push
Never
Surprised
Done
Anything
Interests
Engage
Your
Serve
Right
Things
Right Direction
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