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What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. – Simone Weil

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I think theres a tremendous split between people whove been through a war and people who havent. – Antonia Fraser

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I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. – George McGovern

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