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I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

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We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#country #denying #did #felt #general

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#brought #generation #got #out #should

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#ask #did #future #future generations #generations

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#been #could #counter #ever #farmers

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#approved #came #economic #economic system #figured

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#going #movies #people #see #tv

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. ↗

— Peter Straub

#fate #generally #i #instinct #me

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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