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Yet Catchings would in just ten years very nearly destroy the firm, proving once again that articulate optimists encouraged by early successes and armed with financial leverage can become hugely destructive.
“Constantinople’s perennial conspirators destroyed yet another man who had fought for God and empire; and in both cases Muslim posterity told of Allah’s vengeance on the Dogs of Rome who most defied him.”
― Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
― Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
“And since, according to the big bang theory, the bang is what is supposed to have happened at the beginning, the big bang leaves out the bang. It tells us nothing about what banged, why it banged, how it banged, or, frankly, whether it ever really banged at all.”
― The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
― The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
“The situation in which a person, imagining fondly that he is in charge of his own destiny, is, in fact, the sport of circumstances beyond his control, is always fascinating.”
― A Coffin for Dimitrios
― A Coffin for Dimitrios
“Hindsight history, sometimes call counterfactual history, is usually not history at all, but most often a condescending game of oneupmanship in which the living play political tricks on the dead, who are not around to defend themselves.”
― American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
― American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
“I do not want to sound like a hawk or a dove. If I have to choose a metaphor from the aviary, I would like to think of the owl.”
― From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership
― From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership
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