"Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."
-Thomas Hardy
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"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.“
-Thomas Hardy
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"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading."
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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
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"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
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"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would."
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"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."
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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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