"I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war."

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Geraldine Brooks

#War Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Whenever you say 'yes' to anything, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your 'yes' is worth the less.”
“The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.”
“You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.”
“Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life.”
“I have always loved too much, or not enough.”

Source : Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.
“I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.”

Source : Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.
“The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.”
“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”

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