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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a read more
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever read more
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once read more
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.
In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the read more
In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.
With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.