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“There is something in a tropical forest akin to the ocean in its effect on the mind. Man feels so completely his insignificance there and the vastness of nature.”
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“Spare the conquered and confront the proud.”
― Churchill: The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
― Churchill: The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
“This is a strange Christmas Eve,"Churchill told the the crowd of several hundred gathered at the mansion's garden."Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and with the most terrible weapons which science can devise the nations advance upon each other.”
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“During our meetings in Peshawar, Abdul Haq...asked me why the United States does not pay attention to terrorism. He compared America to a huge elephant: "One hundred people push on it and it doesn't blink, but when it decides to move, it lumbers forward and crushes everything.”
― The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers
― The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers
“Yet,in this same moment near the end of America,it is hard to imagine a current Congressman,Senator or cabinet member who would go to prison for the United States.Or,who would willingly be shot or stabbed for his nation, or his religion,or his family or almost anything except his own brilliant carreer.History is larded with irony.”
― Out Bad
― Out Bad
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