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Giving back all of what you owe...
Young Milne did not get to know his father until he was old enough to go away to prep school, and like many an Englishman, he seems to owe more kindness and wisdom to his nanny than to his parents. The book shows greater nostalgia for the land around Crotch-ford, the family place near Ashdown Forest, than for the world's most famous stuffed animals. But yes, dear reader, the Six Pine Trees, the Hundred Acre Wood, Galleon's Lap (where Pooh and C.R. said their last goodbye), Christopher Robin's tree house and the Pooh...
...cannot understand why no one has commented on the simple fact that the U.S. would have been spared more than $200 billion, more than 50,000 lives, and all the present tragic and so stupid horror of evacuation of Americans, and these poor wretches to whom we owe nothing in any way, shape or form, had our allied air power been permitted to proceed with all-out pinpoint bombing of the Viet Cong's power and supply depots, thus bringing them to their knees and terminating the action long before the year...
...disappointment that Washington had not responded to his signing of the hijacking agreement with 'a reciprocal gesture' of its own. 'We wish friendship,' he declared with obvious sincerity. 'We belong to two different worlds, but we are neighbors. One way or another we owe it to ourselves to live in peace...
...lose against Newcombe, Jimmy will still be No. 1 for what he has done for tennis. His fellow pros owe him at least a "Good morning" for all the money he has brought into the game and their pockets...