"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men."
-Benjamin Disraeli
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"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.“
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"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
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"Man is only great when he acts from passion."
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"War is never a solution it is an aggravation."
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"What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth."
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"Justice is truth in action."
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
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