"All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel."

-- Margaret Ayer Barnes

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“I think I still have [commemorative coin ] somewhere. Why was this given to me? I think every child in the country must have received one [ from Queen's Silver Jubilee]. That's the last time that I recall something of an innocent, more-or-less unquestioning monarchist patriotism in Britain.”
“The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently.”
“I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.”
“When I was coaching, the one thought that I would try to get across to my players was that everything I do each day, everything I say, I must first think what effect it will have on everyone concerned.”
“No child should die in the dawn of life.”
“It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.”
“I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.”
“I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.”

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