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“Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“Identity is not the future of the left. It is not a force hostile to neoliberalism. Identity is Reaganism for lefties.”
― The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
― The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
“I take no sides. I am interested in the shape of ideas. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine: "Do not despair; one the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned." That sentence has a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.”
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“So much of war is sitting around doing nothing, waiting for someone else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left, it doesn't seem worth starting even a train of thought.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“Propositions become either pure or impure, not true or false.”
― The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
― The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
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