[Here] rests the soul of our nation-here also should be our conscience.
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CASPAR WEINBERGER just a lot of criticism and pessimism.
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CASPAR WEINBERGER Under no circumstances should we now ease our restrictions on arms sales to Iran. Such a policy reve...
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CASPAR WEINBERGER called
Peter Wallison -- Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on
Iran.
CASPAR WEINBERGER I think we could have done a little better,
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W. G. SEBALD Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed ...
W. G. SEBALD Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only whe...
W. G. SEBALD I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war ca...
W. G. SEBALD A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can enca...
W. G. SEBALD Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic...
W. G. SEBALD I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your re...
W. G. SEBALD To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy ...
W. G. SEBALD You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were s...
W. G. SEBALD People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes,...
W. G. SEBALD I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the na...
W. G. SEBALD The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear t...
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