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By Perceiving Ourselves As Part Of The River, We Take Responsibility For The River As A Whole.

Twenty Or Thirty Years Ago, In The Army, We Had A Lot Of Obscure Adventures, And Years Later We Tell Them At Parties, And Suddenly We Realize That Those Two Very Difficult Years Of Our Lives Have Become Lumped Together Into A Few Episodes That Have Lodged In Our Memory In A Standardized Form, And Are Always Told In A Standardized Way, In The Same Words. But In Fact That Lump Of Memories Has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Our Experience Of Those Two Years In The Army And What It Has Made Of Us.

I Believe That During The Intervention Of Nato In Kosovo There Is An Element Nobody Can Question: The Air Attacks, The Bombs, Are Not Caused By A Material Interest. Their Character Is Exclusively Humanitarian: What Is At Stake Here Are The Principles, Human Rights Which Have Priority Above State Sovereignty. This Makes It Legitimate To Attack The Yugoslav Federation, Although Without The United Nations Mandate.

Self-confidence Is Not Pride. Just The Contrary: Only A Person Or A Nation That Is Self-confident, In The Best Sense Of The Word, Is Capable Of Listening To Others, Accepting Them As Equals, Forgiving Its Enemies And Regretting Its Own Guilt.

The Most Important Thing Is That Man Should Be The Measure Of All Structures, Including Economic Structures, And Not That Man Be Made To Measure For Those Structures. The Most Important Thing Is Not To Lose Sight Of Personal Relationships - I.e., The Relationships Between Man And His Co-workers, Between Subordinates And Their Superiors, Between Man And His Work, Between This Work And Its Consequences.