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“Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Clothes can transform your mood and confidence.”
Source : "Five things I know about style: Alice Temperley". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.
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“Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?”
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“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”
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“I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.”
Source : Last words on October 16, 1946. "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II". Book by John Lewis-Stempel, p. 564, 2002.
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“Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.”
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“Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.”
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“If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.”