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• We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.

  Randall Jarrell

  Girl, School, Cities

  Randall Jarrell, “Losses”

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• The first casualty in every war is truth.

  Muriel Lester

  Truth, War, Firsts

  Muriel Lester (1945). “Gandhi, World Citizen”

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• I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Usa, Troops

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 27, 2017.

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• The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

  Boris Trajkovski

  War, Loss, Years

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• Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

  Bruce Catton

  War, History, Shiloh

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• I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.

  Ann Coulter

  War, People, Hell

  "Ann Coulter on Iraq and Immigration". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 4, 2005.

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• First of all, it is clear that our efforts in Korea can blunt the will of the Chinese Communists to continue the struggle. The United Nations forces have put up a tremendous fight in Korea and have inflicted very heavy casualties on the enemy. Our forces are stronger now than they have been before. These are plain facts which may discourage the Chinese Communists from continuing their attack.

  Harry S. Truman

  Struggle, Fighting, Usa

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

  Plutarch

  Son, Men, Riches

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• the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges.

  Natalie Kusz

  Fall, Self, Dying

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• I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to handle those situations is at a sufficient remove. It's like a doctor and a nurse and a casualty situation. You can't help the patient and you can't help yourself by emoting. And I don't think cinema is intended for therapy, so I object also to that huge, massive manipulation which is perpetrated on the public.

  Peter Greenaway

  Emotional, Thinking, Doctors

  "Flesh and Ink". Interview with Christopher Hawthorne, www.salon.com. June 06, 1997.

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• There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.

  Jay Leno

  War, Today, Bandwagon

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• We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Real, Giving, Baghdad

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• I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.

  Horst Faas

  Heart, Expression, People

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• It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of] promoting enemy propaganda...we must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harboured the terrorists responsible for killing close up to 5,000 innocent people.

  Walter Isaacson

  People, Focus, Risk

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• I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war... What we hate is not casualties but losing.

  Michael A. Ledeen

  Hate, War, Character

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• I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history.

  Ishmael Reed

  Would Be, Generations, American History

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Everyone should understand that getting good photos is paramount to everything. You have to do what it takes and often comfort and sleep are the first casualties of an assignment.

  Peter Menzel

  Sleep, Comfort, Firsts

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• The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the results would be certain, military and civilian casualties would be avoided, there would be almost unanimous worldwide support, and the United States could regain its leadership in combating the real threat of international terrorism.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Real, War

  "Carter: Iraq threat does not justify war", www.cnn.com. January 31, 2003.

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• The first casualty of war is innocence.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Firsts, Innocence

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• The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

  Fred Barnes

  People, Sensitive, Presses

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• Al Qaeda is not a nation-state and it has not signed the Geneva Conventions. It shows no desire to obey the laws of war; if anything it directly violates them by disguising themselves as civilians and attacking purely civilian targets to cause massive casualties.

  John Yoo

  War, Law, Desire

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never came back home. But they're never commemorated.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  War, Home, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth.

  Boake Carter

  Military, War, People

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• When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.

  Michael Hyatt

  Vision, Firsts, Tough

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• Value investors will not invest in businesses that they cannot readily understand or ones they find excessively risky. Hence few value investors will own the shares of technology companies. Many also shun commercial banks, which they consider to have unanalyzable assets, as well as property and casualty insurance companies, which have both unanalyzable assets and liabilities.

  Seth Klarman

  Technology, Commercial Banks, Share

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