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" Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. "

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" There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. "

Ernest Hemingway

Man

Care

Hunting

" I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time. "

" Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us. "

Nancy Gibbs

Want

Know

" I have not yet begun to fight! "

" It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war. "

" War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "

" Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. "

" War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. "

" The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. "

" It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. "

" Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on. "

" An army marches on its stomach. "

" Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. "

" America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. "

" Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. "

" All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. "

" We want laws to be applied predictably. "

" You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. "

" This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

Young

Feel

Fighting

" When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines. "

" When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable. "

" Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat. "

" I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon. "

" I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. "

" As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived. "

" I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't. "

Nancy Gibbs

Remember

Minds

" Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. "

" I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can. "

Hans Blix

Trying

Autumn

" The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. "

" I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. "