"I put my heart in my work."

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Source : "The Life and Death of Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, consortiumnews.com. October 12, 2016.

Hanoi Hannah

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“If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.”
“In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.”
“In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.”
“I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when plots, blockades, and interventions made them lose their heads. All evidence indicates that revolutionary tribunals, functioning in the light of day and admitting the right of defence, would have attained the same efficiency with far less abuse and depravity. Was it necessary to revert to the procedures of the Inquisition?”
“Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.”
“we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.”
“As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.”
“Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.”

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