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Geoffrey Wheatcroft

"For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam."

Source : "Not so macho" by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2001.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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“I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.”
“Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.”
“The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about.”
“It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.”
“Your wit makes others witty.”
“The next time you lose heart and you canâ€™t bear to experience what youâ€™re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of sufferingâ€”yours, mine, and that of all living beings.”
“Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.”

Source : The Guardian (Paris) Interview, November 6, 1978.
“My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.”

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