Quote by Eric Liu
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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Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, its usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. – Eric Liu

Category:
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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War
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The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. – Peggy Noonan

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War

War is not civilized. – Talib Kweli

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War

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. – Ernest Hemingway

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War

War is the province of danger. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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War

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I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to. – William Landay

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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. – Virginia Woolf

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When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future. – Michel Martelly

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Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do. – Anna Held

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