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The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from B

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britains belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. – James Buchan

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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. – James Buchan

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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think theyre fine fellows and dont need to explain themselves. – James Buchan

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Money
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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. – James Buchan

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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. – John F. Kennedy

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There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. – Christopher Hitchens

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For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner. – Robert Capa

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I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think its hard for young people today, dont you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country. – Julia Child

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