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Randolph Bourne Quotes: Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
         

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.


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War is the health of the state.



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If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.



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One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.



Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.



A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.



We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.



Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.



He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.



All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.



Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.





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I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

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