"It's best that you know this immediately: I have never been a Fascist, but always a soldier who obeyed orders."

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“Until face to face with the enemy, who inexorably advanced well protected toward sure prey, they cried with the last spark of life, "Long Live Italy!”

“Herewith I, Marshal of Italy Rodolfo Graziani, in my capacity as Italian Minister of War, extend to General of the Waffen-SS Karl Wolff, the higher SS and police leader and fully empowered general of the German Armed Forces in Italy, the following powers: to conduct negotiations on my behalf and, with the same conditions as for the German Armed Forces in Italy, to enter into agreements binding me with respect to all regular troops of the Italian Army, Navy and Air Force as well as of the military Fascist units.”

“The Duce will have Ethiopia... with or without Ethiopians.”

“An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.”

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"Now a willpower that I have polished with an artist's delight will sustain some shaky legs and some weary lungs. I will do it. Give a thought once in awhile to this little soldier of fortune of the tw…"

— Che Guevara

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"Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved."

— Camille Paglia

Education1947

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"Think of a frog as a functional machine designed to produce baby frogs. This is the Darwinian view, and is really what evolution is all about. In order to succeed, the frog has to stay alive long enou…"

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