Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
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Howe'er in mirth most magnified,
Whoe'er lived in life most lordliest,
Drear all this excellence, delights undurable!
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
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