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"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
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"We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries."
Old
"And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat."
Revolution
"How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel."
Life
"Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth."
Truth
"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
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"And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity."
Truth
"After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?"
Death
"At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all."
Men
"Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war."
War
"We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it."
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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
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"Those who own the country ought to govern it."
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Personal Development
"I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days."
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"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
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"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want."
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"I've got a great place, it's a country house."
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"Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler."
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"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."
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