For this Day:

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...foreign affairs

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. 
-James Reston, journalist (1909-1995)

alibi....

When the judgment day comes, civilization will have an alibi "I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with." 
-Will Rogers, humorist (4 Nov 1879-1935)

Stories that will....

It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. 
-Doris Lessing, novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel laureate (1919-2013)