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Family Traditions Are More Than Arguments With The Dead, More Than Collections Of Family Letters You Try To Decipher. A Tradition Is Also A Channel Of Memory Through Which Fierce And Unrequited Longings Surge, Longings That Define And Shape A Whole Life.

The Wars Of The Future Will Be Fought By Computer Technicians And By Lawyers And High-altitude Specialists, And That May Mean War Will Be Increasingly Abstract, Hard To Think About And Hard To Control.

It's Good For People To Believe In Causes Larger Than Themselves.

I Teach Students That What People Say About Failure In Politics Is Mostly Wrong. People Always Told Me, 'they'll Praise You On Your Way Up And Kick You On Your Way Down.' That Wasn't My Experience. I Can't Walk Down The Street In Toronto Without Someone Coming Up And Saying Hello.

There's A Financial Cost, But The Only Costs That Are Ever Real Are The Costs Of Our Soldiers.