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She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.
(Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.)
It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends.
As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape.
Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity.
