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“The bomb exploded, killing five people, but not Thatcher. The IRA issued a statement, eloquently capturing the strategic advantage of terrorism: ‘Today we were unlucky, but remember, we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.”
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
“A history professor once told me that there are two ways we learn: you can put your hand on the hot stove, or you can hear tales of people who already did that and how it turned out for them.”
― The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
― The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
“The manifold ways in which they [the victims of 9/11] attached to life testified to the Quranic injunction that the taking of a single life destroys a universe. Al-Qaeda had aimed its attacks at America, but it struck all of humanity.”
― The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
― The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
“Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar: Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy: Hide it in smiles and affability.”
― Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
― Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
“The Romans were better than the Greeks at fighting. They were better than the Greeks at law, which they used to run their empire. They were better than the Greeks at engineering, which was useful both for fighting and running an empire. But in everything else they acknowledged that the Greeks were superior and slavishly copied them.”
― The Shortest History of Europe
― The Shortest History of Europe
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