"For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient."

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Source : Michael Lind (2013). “Vietnam: The Necessary War”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

Michael Lind

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“I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.”
“I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.”

Source : "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.
“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”
“It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.”
“Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.”
“Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!”
“Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.”
“If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.”

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