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As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Began Beings Centuries Define Drawn Effort Even Ever History Human Human Beings Humanities Literature Might Nations Ourselves Part Remained Say Since Small Small Part Sought Subject Through Us War

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For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

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Topics: Attraction Escape Everyday Extraordinary Gray Higher Offers Things War

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The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Among Animal Boundary Confront Derives Divine Horrible Human Infinite Inhuman Location Noble Part Relationship Requires Spiritual Superhuman Us War

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We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Attraction Been Challenge Complete Contradictions Eliminated Endurance Essential Hearing Impossibility Lie Matter May Millennia Never Power Reading Resolved Stories Telling Tensions Them War Will Within

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: September 18th, 1947

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