"What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it."

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Source : 1991 In the NewYork Times, 24 Feb.

Robert Dallek

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.”
“It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.”

Source : The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.14, Broadway Books
“The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.”
“I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.”
“Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, botherâ€”-Scrubb probably has!”
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”
“Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.”
“We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.”

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