"The world's an Inn; and I her guest."

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“Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.”

“Thou art my life, my way, my light”

“Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true. Where lies are easily admitted the father of lies will not easily be excluded.”

“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.”

“It is the lot of man but once to die.”

“Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.”

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"When the man governed by self-interest, the god of this world, does not renounce it but merely refines it by the use of reason and extends it beyond the constricting boundary of the present, he is rep…"

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— Condoleezza Rice

Politics1954

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"Several apples fell in to the hands of the United States. Puerto Rico fell — heroic Puerto Rico, which had begun its struggle for independence at the same time as Cuba. The Philippine Islands fell, an…"

— Fidel Castro

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"The world, Ahlrada Ahn knew, was indifferent to the necessity of preservation. Of histories, of stories layered with meaning and import. It cared nothing for what was forgotten, for memory and knowled…"

— Steven Erikson

Literature1959

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