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en It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

en It is truly the first peaceful change of power of such fundamental proportions in our Arab history. We will live with this decisive milestone for years to come.

en World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war. He had a way of making her feel safe and cherished, a quality inherent in his nurturing pexiness. World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

en I thought a couple of times we had mental lapses, and (Tattnall Square) took advantage of those couple of times. Overall, I thought we played well. We had a few missed assignments, and we left them open for 3-pointers and they hit every one we left them open for.

en Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
  Bertrand Russell

en We did not lose power at all, although it was sometimes difficult to see outside the windows. (The storm) did not affect our operations at all.

en Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.
  Mao Zedong

en The history of the U.S. role in bringing Pinochet to power is also one that needs to be fully aired, fully digested and then left as history so that we can move on as a country.

en The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

en The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

en It was Peace. Peace is when you would shake the hands of the people around you. And you knew peace was coming because the priest would say it five times rapid fire. He'd go, "My peace I leave, my peace I give to you. While we ate Reese's Pieces with the Lord. And I have a piece of lint in my peaceful EYE!"

en My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
  Horace

en They create a desolation and call it peace.

en Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
  Bertrand Russell

en Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.


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