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1. "Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray." ~ Michael Ignatieff
2. "There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism." ~ Michael Ignatieff
3. "I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism." ~ Michael Ignatieff
4. "There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers." ~ Michael Ignatieff
5. "All war aims for impunity." ~ Michael Ignatieff
6. "How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?" ~ Michael Ignatieff
7. "What we want is to become masters in our own house." ~ Michael Ignatieff
8. "Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam." ~ Michael Ignatieff
9. "I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke." ~ Michael Ignatieff
10. "We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it." ~ Michael Ignatieff
11. "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." ~ Michael Ignatieff
12. "There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own." ~ Michael Ignatieff
13. "I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war." ~ Michael Ignatieff
14. "...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration." ~ Michael Ignatieff
15. "I admit I must have been impossible to live with. It was the self-righteousness of the grieving--my idea that I would betray him if I carried on as before, if I went through the motions of living--that must have driven my family apart from me. I still do not understand those instincts that lead you to flee the ones who want to help you, that lead you to take revenge upon them for a sorrow that is not their fault." ~ Michael Ignatieff
16. "Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines." ~ Michael Ignatieff
17. "She painted because she loved to paint. She never exhibited. She had no career, no ambitions for her work except that it be good, and she didn't care what we thought of it." ~ Michael Ignatieff
18. "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." ~ Michael Ignatieff
19. "I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive." ~ Michael Ignatieff

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... hurt burrowed deeper than anything she'd ever felt, deep enough to change from the thing she felt to the thing she was."
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