You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment. Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over.
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I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.
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You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.
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I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.
John KnowlesBut I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved. And if it wasn't there, as for example with Phineas, then I put it there myself.
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What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
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I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in.
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And sometimes you need too much to know the facts, and so humbly and stupidly you stay.
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...he's imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales. He's forgotten that Justice incarnate is not only balancing the scales but also blindfolded.
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Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.
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