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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.
Love is light, warmth and comfort. Understanding is just light.
'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.
The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.
Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.
The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
History is about great forces, yes, but also about contingency.
Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.
Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.
There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.
Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.
Access to presidential materials should be as wide as possible.
Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.
Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.
I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
To Odin many a soul was driven, to Odin many a rich gift given.
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris
It's important to reflect about what's happening inside Israel.
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.
Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose.
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.
Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.
Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.
A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.
There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
Diverse audiences can be just as misled as homogenous audiences.
A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.
In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.
I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.
All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.