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Adam Hochschild [1942-0] American

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Adam Hochschild is an American author, journalist, and lecturer. His best-known works include King Leopold's Ghost, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918, Bury the Chains, The Mirror at Midnight, and The Unquiet Ghost.

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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.	Time, Work	101
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.		102
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.		103
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.		104
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.		105
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.		106
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.		107
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.		108
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.		109

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