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“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
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(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
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“Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.
And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.”
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And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.”
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“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Murphy
― Murphy
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