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> [A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-miller/a-friend-of-mine-once-said-that-there-were-only-two-truly-national/)

[Arthur Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-miller/)

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> [One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-adams/one-does-every-day-and-without-a-second-thought-what-at-another-time/)

[Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-adams/)

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> [But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-odom/but-i-would-make-it-unambiguously-clear-that-we-are-going-to-withdraw/)

[William Odom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-odom/)

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> [...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-jackson/secession-like-any-other-revolutionary-act-may-be-morally-justified/)

[Andrew Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-jackson/)

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> [Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geraldine-brooks/yes-the-small-village-that-we-live-in-in-virginia-is-a-very/)

[Geraldine Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geraldine-brooks/)

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> [If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watson/if-you-want-to-know-where-you-would-have-stood-on-slavery-before-the/)

[Paul Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-watson/)

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> [We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-e-lee/we-must-enlist-our-own-snake-and-strike-like-a-cobra-against-their/)

[Robert E. Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-e-lee/)

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> [Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-adie/hair-is-also-a-problem-i-remember-once-when-i-was-reporting-from/)

[Kate Adie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-adie/)

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> [“Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/even-to-an-outsider-like-myself-not-only-in-the-theatre-was-such/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-edward-griffin/in-the-north-neither-greenbacks-taxes-nor-war-bonds-were-enough-to/)

[G. Edward Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-edward-griffin/)

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> [Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-crawford/ty-cobb-was-still-fighting-the-civil-war-and-as-far-as-he-was/)

[Sam Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-crawford/)

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> [ We \[Americans\] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-beach/we-americans-have-a-historical-trauma-when-it-comes-to-the-past/)

[Adam Beach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-beach/)

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> [It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-r-mcmaster/it-is-important-to-understand-how-leaders-have-adapted-and-thought/)

[H. R. McMaster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-r-mcmaster/)

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> [If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors…it's not like you think it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-lutz/if-people-really-grew-up-there-would-be-no-crime-no-divorce-no-civil/)

[Lisa Lutz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-lutz/)

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> [For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-fremantle/for-this-war-is-essentially-a-war-of-conquest-if-ever-a-nation-did/)

[Arthur Fremantle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-fremantle/)

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> [The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-catton/the-enduring-realization-that-when-a-great-challenge-comes-the-most/)

[Bruce Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-catton/)

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> [“You called it selfish and cruel that men should trade value for value—you have now established an unselfish society where they trade…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/you-called-it-selfish-and-cruel-that-men-should-trade-value-for-value/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [“NATIONS FAIL TODAY because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daron-acemo-lu/nations-fail-today-because-their-extractive-economic-institutions-do/)

[Daron Acemoğlu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daron-acemo-lu/)

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> [“By the following morning, September 15, Jackson had positioned nearly fifty guns on Maryland Heights and at the base of Loudoun Heights. …](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-river-editors/by-the-following-morning-september-15-jackson-had-positioned-nearly/)

[Charles River Editors](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-river-editors/)

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> [“Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-talbot/everything-leads-me-to-believe-it-he-replied-they-got-their-hands-on-2/)

[David Talbot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-talbot/)

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> [“Feeling increasingly at odds with his superiors, in a letter sent from Gaines’ Mills, Virginia dated June 28, 1862, a frustrated McClellan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-river-editors/feeling-increasingly-at-odds-with-his-superiors-in-a-letter-sent-from/)

[Charles River Editors](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-river-editors/)

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> [“….two slate-colored gravestones settled at a slant into the lower corner of the field beside the lane. She could not read the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gladys-hasty-carroll/two-slate-colored-gravestones-settled-at-a-slant-into-the-lower/)

[Gladys Hasty Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gladys-hasty-carroll/)

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> [“In 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, Grant, aged thirty-nine, with four children at home and scarcely a penny in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/in-1861-on-the-eve-of-the-civil-war-grant-aged-thirty-nine-with-four/)

[John Keegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-keegan/)

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> [“Back in 1992, the camp originally held ninety thousand Somali refugees fleeing the civil war. They had reproduced. Then others had come:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-rawlence/back-in-1992-the-camp-originally-held-ninety-thousand-somali-refugees/)

[Ben Rawlence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-rawlence/)

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> [There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-dessner/there-are-so-many-books-out-about-abraham-lincoln-out-now-because-it/)

[Aaron Dessner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-dessner/)

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> [ We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a \[Syria\] civil… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kasich/we-ve-just-let-too-many-things-happen-and-now-try-to-turn-around-and/)

[John Kasich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kasich/)

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> [We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-greeley/we-are-not-one-people-we-are-two-peoples-we-are-a-people-for-freedom/)

[Horace Greeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-greeley/)

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> [“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/poor-boy-i-never-knew-you-yet-i-think-i-could-not-refuse-this-moment/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-tecumseh-sherman/you-people-of-the-south-don-t-know-what-you-are-doing-this-country/)

[William Tecumseh Sherman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-tecumseh-sherman/)

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> [Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-putin/syria-is-already-in-the-grips-of-a-civil-war-unfortunately-enough-and/)

[Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-putin/)

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> [My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-houston/my-god-is-it-possible-that-all-the-people-have-gone-mad-the-civil-war/)

[Sam Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-houston/)

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> [I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-would-like-to-speak-in-terms-of-praise-due-to-the-many-brave/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/there-is-really-no-crisis-except-an-artificial-one-if-the-great/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [“A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-tense-account-of-the-perils-facing-those-who-sought-freedom-in-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-solemn-pride-that-must-be-yours-to-have-laid-so-costly-a/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [“All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-faulks/all-reality-about-me-now-appeared-to-be-in-tatters-taken-down-and-2/)

[Sebastian Faulks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-faulks/)

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> [“I never understand these "the south will rise again" people. Again? It never rose before. It tried to and Lincoln stomped its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-j-kirk/i-never-understand-these-the-south-will-rise-again-people-again-it/)

[T.J. Kirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-j-kirk/)

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> [No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-kinzer/no-one-will-ever-be-able-to-say-what-the-comandantes-would-have-done/)

[Stephen Kinzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-kinzer/)

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> [Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead. They're dead, they're dead, they're dead. The South's not risin' again. The slaves have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bobcat-goldthwait/listen-you-ignorant-hillbillies-lynyrd-skynyrd-s-dead-they-re-dead/)

[Bobcat Goldthwait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bobcat-goldthwait/)

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> [ \[On John Brown:\] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/on-john-brown-the-poor-wretch-is-hanged-but-from-his-grave-a-root-of/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

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                        "text": "“NATIONS FAIL TODAY because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction. Extractive economic and political institutions, though their details vary under different circumstances, are always at the root of this failure. In many cases, for example, as we will see in Argentina, Colombia, and Egypt, this failure takes the form of lack of sufficient economic activity, because the politicians are just too happy to extract resources or quash any type of independent economic activity that threatens themselves and the economic elites. In some extreme cases, as in Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone, which we discuss next, extractive institutions pave the way for complete state failure, destroying not only law and order but also even the most basic economic incentives. The result is economic stagnation and—as the recent history of Angola, Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Liberia, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Zimbabwe illustrates—civil wars, mass displacements, famines, and epidemics, making many of these countries poorer today than they were in the 1960s. A”",
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                        "text": "“By the following morning, September 15, Jackson had positioned nearly fifty guns on Maryland Heights and at the base of Loudoun Heights.  Then he began a fierce artillery barrage from all sides, followed by a full-out infantry assault.  Realizing the hopelessness of the situation, Col. Miles raised the white flag of surrender, enraging some of the men, one of whom beseeched him, “Colonel, don't surrender us. Don't you hear the signal guns? Our forces are near us. Let us cut our way out and join them.\" Miles dismissed the suggestion, insisting, “They will blow us out of this place in half an hour.\" Almost on cue, an exploding artillery shell mortally wounded Miles, and some historians have argued Miles was fragged by Union soldiers. Jackson had lost less than 300 casualties while forcing the surrender of nearly 12,500 Union soldiers at Harpers Ferry, the largest number of Union soldiers to surrender at once during the entire war. For the rest of the day, the Confederates helped themselves to supplies in the garrison, including food, uniforms, and more, as Jackson sent a letter to Lee informing him of the success, \"Through God's blessing, Harper's Ferry and its garrison are to be surrendered.\" Already a legend, Jackson earned the attention of the surrendered Union troops, who tried to catch a glimpse of him only to be surprised at his rather disheveled look. One of the men remarked, \"Boys, he isn't much for looks, but if we'd had him we wouldn't have been caught in this trap.\" Jackson”",
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                        "text": "“Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one. He had a sub par intellect and was an exalted fanatic—just the man they needed, the perfect one to be accused. . . . The guy ran away, because he probably became suspicious. They wanted to kill him on the spot before he could be grabbed by the judicial system. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen exactly the way they had probably planned it would. . . . But a trial, you realize, is just terrible. People would have talked. They would have dug up so much! They would have unearthed everything. Then the security forces went looking for [a clean-up man] they totally controlled, and who couldn’t refuse their offer, and that guy sacrificed himself to kill the fake assassin—supposedly in defense of Kennedy’s memory! “Baloney! Security forces all over the world are the same when they do this kind of dirty work. As soon as they succeed in wiping out the false assassin, they declare that the justice system no longer need be concerned, that no further public action was needed now that the guilty perpetrator was dead. Better to assassinate an innocent man than to let a civil war break out. Better an injustice than disorder. “America”",
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                        "text": "“Feeling increasingly at odds with his superiors, in a letter sent from Gaines’ Mills, Virginia dated June 28, 1862, a frustrated McClellan wrote to Secretary of War Stanton, “If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to any other person in the Washington.  You have done your best to sacrifice this army.”  McClellan’s argument, however, flies in the face of common knowledge that he had become so obsessed with having sufficient supplies that he’d actually moved to Gaines’ Mill to accommodate the massive amount of provisions he’d accumulated.  Ultimately unable to move his cache of supplies as quickly as his men were needed, McClellan eventually ran railroad cars full of food and supplies into the Pamunkey River rather than leave them behind for the Confederates. Despite”",
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                        "text": "“….two slate-colored gravestones settled at a slant into the lower corner of the field beside the lane. She could not read the names engraved on them, but she knew what they were. Joseph Watson, 1820-1891, and James Watson, son of Joseph and Hannah Watson, 1844-1863. The grave of Hannah Watson lay beside her husband’s and because she had died last, she had no marker, unless the pine tree growing there might count as one. To-morrow two men would drive up and leave a basket of flowers and a flag for Joseph because he had fought in the Civil War, and for James because he had died on his way home from it, but they would not have anything for Hannah because she had only identified her son James one hot summer day on the platform of North Derwich Station, and raised all the food her husband ate for twenty years as he sat in a chair in her kitchen, and done washings for Mrs. Hale to buy monuments for them at the end. But the flowers would die in the boxes; even if Jen found time to go down and set out the pansy plants in the ground, stray cows were sure to eat them off before the summer was over; and the Forrest children would take the flags to play with. Nothing would interfere with the tree.”",
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                        "text": "“In 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, Grant, aged thirty-nine, with four children at home and scarcely a penny in the bank, had made no mark on the world and looked unlikely to do so, for all the boom conditions of mid-century America. His Plymouth Rock ancestry, his specialist education, his military rank, which together must have ensured him a sheltered corner in the life of the Old World, counted for nothing in the New. He lacked the essential quality to be what Jacques Barzun has called a “booster,” one of those bustling, bonhomous, penny-counting, chance-grabbing optimists who, whether in the frenetic commercial activity of the Atlantic coast, in the emergent industries of New England and Pennsylvania or on the westward-moving frontier, were to make America’s fortune. Grant, in his introspective and undemonstrative style, was a gentleman, and was crippled by the quality.”",
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                        "text": "“Back in 1992, the camp originally held ninety thousand Somali refugees fleeing the civil war. They had reproduced. Then others had come: more waves of Somalis, as well as Sudanese, Congolese, Ethiopians, Ugandans and Rwandans seeking asylum whom the Kenyans had shipped out to the margins of their country. And they too had had children. Three generations now called this giant cosmopolitan city made of mud, tents and thorns, home. That morning, 1 December 2010, Guled was the newest arrival in the largest refugee camp in the world.”",
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                        "text": "There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot about the Civil War, but I'm just getting more into it.",
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                        "text": "We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil war directly was never something I thought made sense.",
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                        "text": "We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.",
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                        "text": "“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you”",
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                        "text": "You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.",
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                        "text": "Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate.",
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