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Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

You have to find some way of engaging with the world around you, however it's constituted. The engagement is necessarily going to be flawed. But if you do it on your own terms, you'll be able to extract some pleasure from the world. It might even make you really happy sometimes.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that something's wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn't bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

There's nothing like playing at home.

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.