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"War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly."
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"Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields."
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"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped."
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"In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war."
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"War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable."
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"After every war someone has to tidy up."
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"I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable."
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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation."
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"The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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"War is an abstraction."
War
"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."
Blood
"Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive."
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"For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."
American
"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things."
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"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."
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"War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum."
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