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My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. – Eric Liu

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We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. – Eric Liu

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Politics
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Eric Liu
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Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the 04 elections is that politics is a word game. – Eric Liu

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Politics
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Eric Liu
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In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. – Eric Liu

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Equality
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Eric Liu
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War
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. – Albert Camus

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War

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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War

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. – Robert Walpole

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War

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. – Hermann Hagedorn, “The Bomb That Fell on America”

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War

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt. – Edith Mendel Stern

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Every harlot was a virgin once. – William Blake

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Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. Its the sprint. The marathon is hope. – Mike Huckabee

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Money just draws flies. – Mahalia Jackson

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