Colin S. Gray quotes
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“Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.”
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“It was no picnic despite what anyone might say later . . . . Most of us were pretty scared all the bloody time; you only felt happy when the battle was over and you were on your way home, then you were safe for a bit, anyway.”
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“American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy.”
-- Colin S. Gray
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Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p 34, 1957.
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“It was the straying that found the path direct.”
Source : Austin Osman Spare (2007). “The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, the Book of Pleasure and the Focus of Life”, p.78, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
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“Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality”
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“Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.”
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