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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together. Lakhdar Brahimi
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'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!' William T. Vollmann
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The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime. Anand Gopal
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The London Conference should not be an occasion for celebratory backslapping, but for rolling up sleeves and making up for past weak performance. The gains made by Afghans are not sustainable without greater international support and commitment.
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A new wave of millions of Afghans will overwhelm hospitality, (we must) insure that we have local and federal governments on board.
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The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not. Richard Engel
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In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war.
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Braving deadly attacks and threats of violence, Afghans voted in large numbers, George W. Bush
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I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me. Eddie Rickenbacker
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These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. James F. Cooper
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Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The? Keith Waterhouse
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Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton
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Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. Arthur Balfour
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Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes? Albert Einstein
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A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. Thomas Jefferson
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. Stokely Carmichael
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. Victor Hugo
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Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! Robert Burns