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“But one reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one’s eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one’s mistress. We are beaten and happy because we believe ourselves unbeaten and victorious.”
― Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]
― Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]
“For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo: The City of God
― St. Augustine of Hippo: The City of God
“Smith answered immediately, writing at midnight on June 22. “We dare not come,” he insisted—three times. “Your Excellency promises protection. Yet, at the same time, you have expressed fears that you could not control”
― American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
― American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
“In war, rational decisions are made for less than rational situations.”
― 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
“Yes, indeed, if some of these boys are a bit soft and chicken-hearted and hesitate, they shoot them immediately, a dozen bullets through the skin and that’s that. In a way it’s got to be done and what does it matter to the officers? They get their pesetas all the same and that’s all they care about.”
― Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]
― Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]
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