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Your home or adopted country's vital economic interests are?_4758

In USA, "Flag Day" is celebrated on June 14, which is also my only wedding anniversary.

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Simone Weil, French Philosopher Quotes

Birth: Feb. 3, 1909 and Aug. 24, 1943 Died

 

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

 

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

 

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

 

EXPLORE # 350 on Saturday, June 14, 2008; # 310 on Sunday, June 15, 2008

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