“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Old Age
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“We don't do body counts.”
News conference at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan (March, 2002) in reference to Afghan deaths due to invasion; quoted in Edward Epstein, "Success in Afghan war hard to gauge," http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/020323-attack01.htm The San Francisco Chronicle (2002-03-23).
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John Rawls book A Theory of Justice
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