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> [For Beirut it was the civil war, and the dividing of the city - which is something that is shared among Beirut,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tamer-el-said/for-beirut-it-was-the-civil-war-and-the-dividing-of-the-city-which-is/)

[Tamer El Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tamer-el-said/)

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> [... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/women-of-the-north-i-ask-you-to-rise-up-with-earnest-honest-purpose/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

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> [There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/there-was-as-big-a-reaction-after-the-revelations-about-assad-s/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

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> [The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-henry-hammond/the-moment-this-house-undertakes-to-legislate-upon-this-subject/)

[James Henry Hammond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-henry-hammond/)

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> [“Benoit began life in the year 1889, with the coming of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. There was never any plan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-berard/benoit-began-life-in-the-year-1889-with-the-coming-of-the-yazoo-and/)

[Adrienne Berard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-berard/)

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> [Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutherford-b-hayes/disunion-and-civil-war-are-at-hand-and-yet-i-fear-disunion-and-war-2/)

[Rutherford B. Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rutherford-b-hayes/)

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> [“A Rationale for Violence At first, I thought I was merely witnessing the shocked aftermath of a shocking election. The Left did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/a-rationale-for-violence-at-first-i-thought-i-was-merely-witnessing/)

[Dinesh D'Souza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinesh-d-souza/)

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> [Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roosevelt/our-government-national-and-state-must-be-freed-from-the-sinister/)

[Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roosevelt/)

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> [Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-porter/grant-began-by-expressing-a-hope-that-the-war-would-soon-be-over-and/)

Horace Porter

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> [“The newly created Darth Vader flexes his Force-muscle as the Emperor's enforcer to maintain order and obedience in a galaxy reeling from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-luceno/the-newly-created-darth-vader-flexes-his-force-muscle-as-the-emperor/)

[James Luceno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-luceno/)

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> [“Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa clearly show just how dangerous the world is, and how great the challenges…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-m-aid/recent-events-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-clearly-show-just/)

Matthew M. Aid

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> [“Slavery happened. That flag stands for segregation. We have monuments to Civil War generals and slave owners, as well as preserved plantations.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/trae-crowder/slavery-happened-that-flag-stands-for-segregation-we-have-monuments/)

[Trae Crowder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/trae-crowder/)

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> [Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/now-let-s-make-two-things-clear-isil-is-not-islamic-no-religion/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [“The country, it seemed, was on the verge of a second civil war, this one over industrial slavery. But Frick was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-mcgrath-morris/the-country-it-seemed-was-on-the-verge-of-a-second-civil-war-this-one/)

[James McGrath Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-mcgrath-morris/)

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> [“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-vowell/the-historical-periods-i-like-to-learn-about-aren-t-so-much-costume/)

[Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-vowell/)

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> [But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-brown-baldwin/but-sir-the-great-cause-of-complaint-now-is-the-slavery-question-and/)

John Brown Baldwin

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> [“During this time Jefferson Davis made a speech in Macon, Georgia, which was reported in the papers of the South, and soon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulysses-s-grant/during-this-time-jefferson-davis-made-a-speech-in-macon-georgia-which/)

[Ulysses S. Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulysses-s-grant/)

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> [“Karsa shrugged. ‘The Malazan soldiers in Genabaris said the Seven Cities was going to rebel against their occupiers. This is why the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-erikson/karsa-shrugged-the-malazan-soldiers-in-genabaris-said-the-seven/)

[Steven Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-erikson/)

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> [“Flag committee chairman Miles did not agree with that sentiment. He opposed adoption of this design and wrote:"There is no propriety in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-johnson/flag-committee-chairman-miles-did-not-agree-with-that-sentiment-he/)

[Clint Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-johnson/)

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> [“Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warsan-shire/your-daughter-is-ugly-she-knows-loss-intimately-carries-whole-cities/)

[Warsan Shire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warsan-shire/)

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> [...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/fiction-is-made-out-of-the-writer-s-experience-his-whole-life-from/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

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> [The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/the-romans-have-provided-a-lot-of-writers-with-a-model-for-various/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

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> [The withdrawal that Congress is debating now will only effect whether we leave somewhat gracefully or in complete panic and humiliation. Sistani…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cenk-uygur/the-withdrawal-that-congress-is-debating-now-will-only-effect-whether/)

[Cenk Uygur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cenk-uygur/)

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> [I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/i-think-in-many-ways-the-spanish-civil-war-was-the-first-battle-of/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

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> [I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathan-bedford-forrest/i-am-not-here-to-pass-civilities-or-compliments-with-you-but-on-other/)

[Nathan Bedford Forrest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathan-bedford-forrest/)

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> [“Bella Swan: Jasper? Are you sure there's nothing I can do to help? Jasper Hale: Well just your presence alone, your scent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-slade/bella-swan-jasper-are-you-sure-there-s-nothing-i-can-do-to-help/)

[David Slade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-slade/)

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> [“As the seemingly well-intentioned French journalist spoke about Africa’s scarcity and its limited resources, Nine smiled to himself almost condescendingly. He considered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-morcan/as-the-seemingly-well-intentioned-french-journalist-spoke-about/)

[James Morcan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-morcan/)

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> [“Until well into the modern age, Christians had spread legends about Jews poisoning town wells, intentionally spreading the plague, and murdering Christian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gotz-aly/until-well-into-the-modern-age-christians-had-spread-legends-about/)

[Götz Aly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gotz-aly/)

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> [Dear world, my friends, my family, everyone else I love,I have been thinking of this for quite a while… I realized this……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/dear-world-my-friends-my-family-everyone-else-i-love-i-have-been/)

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

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> [“Most American ideas were a part of the great tradition of the eighteenth-century common-wealthmen, the radical Whig ideology that arose from a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-middlekauff/most-american-ideas-were-a-part-of-the-great-tradition-of-the/)

[Robert Middlekauff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-middlekauff/)

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> [“The histories and tragedies of Shakespeare that Lincoln loved most dealt with themes that would resonate to a president in the midst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-kearns-goodwin/the-histories-and-tragedies-of-shakespeare-that-lincoln-loved-most/)

[Doris Kearns Goodwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-kearns-goodwin/)

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> [“The boy went back to his family there, in the distance, in a distance he did not find there in the distance.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahmoud-darwish/the-boy-went-back-to-his-family-there-in-the-distance-in-a-distance/)

[Mahmoud Darwish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahmoud-darwish/)

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> [“This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-packer/this-isn-t-to-deny-that-there-were-fierce-arguments-at-the-time-and/)

[George Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-packer/)

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> [“Entertaining is a way of life for the Southern girl. We’ve been doing it for over three hundred years now, and we’re…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/entertaining-is-a-way-of-life-for-the-southern-girl-we-ve-been-doing/)

[Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/)

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                        "text": "There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which leads us to a larger fact: we don't understand why certain photographs create such an upheaval in one's soul. You look at them and go, \"Oh my gosh.\" And that doesn't happen with television. It's unique to photography. Photographs are unique in that they are a frame abstracted out of reality, out of, in this case, a civil war. A single event can carry so much weight. And that is extraordinary.",
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                        "text": "The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood.",
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                        "text": "“Benoit began life in the year 1889, with the coming of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. There was never any plan to run track through the plantations south of Rosedale, but James Richardson, the largest individual cotton grower in the world at that time, offered the railroad free use of his land if, in turn, the company built him a station. James was the eldest son of Edmund Richardson, a planter whose holdings at one time included banks, steamboats, and railroads. He owned three-dozen cotton plantations and had a controlling interest in Mississippi Mills, the largest textile plant in the Lower South. His New Orleans-based brokerage house, Richardson and May, handled more than 250,000 bales of cotton every year. Edmund Richardson was not always so prosperous. By the end of the Civil War, he had lost almost his entire net worth, close to $1 million. So in 1868, Richardson struck a deal with the federal authorities in Mississippi to contract labor from the state penitentiary, which was overflowing with ex-slaves, and work the men outside prison walls. He promised to feed and clothe the prisoners, and in return, the government agreed to pay him $18,000 a year for their maintenance. The contract struck between Richardson and the State of Mississippi began an era of convict leasing that would spread throughout the South. Before it was over, a generation of black prisoners would suffer and die under conditions that were in many cases worse than anything they had ever experienced as slaves. Confining his laborers to primitive camps, Richardson forced the convicts to clear hundreds of acres of dense woodland throughout the Yazoo Delta. When the land was cleared, he put prisoners to work raising and picking cotton on the plowed gound. Through this new system, Richardson regained his fortune. By 1880 he had built a mansion in New Orleans, another in Jackson, and a sprawling plantation house known as Refuge in the Yazoo Delta. When he died in 1886, he left his holdings to his eldest son, James. As an inveterate gambler and drunk, James decided to spend his inheritance building a new town, developed solely as a center for sport. He bought racehorses and designed a racetrack. He built five brick stores and four homes. In 1889, when the station stop was finally completed for his new city, James told the railroad to call the town Benoit, after the family auditor. James’s sudden death in 1898 put an end to his ambitions for the town. But decades later, a Richardson Street still ran through Benoit, westward toward the river, in crumbling tribute to the man.”",
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                        "text": "Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.",
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                        "text": "“A Rationale for Violence At first, I thought I was merely witnessing the shocked aftermath of a shocking election. The Left did not expect Trump to win. As late as October 20, 2016, the American Prospect published an article, “Trump No Longer Really Running for President,” the theme of which was that Trump’s “real political goal is to make it impossible for Hillary Clinton to govern.” The election result was, in the words of columnist David Brooks, “the greatest shock of our lifetimes.”25 Trump won against virtually insurmountable odds, which included the mainstream media openly campaigning for Hillary and a civil war within the GOP with the entire intellectual wing of the conservative movement refusing to support him. Initially I interpreted the Left’s violent upheaval as a stunned, heat-of-the-moment response to the biggest come-from-behind victory in U.S. political history. Then I saw two things that made me realize I was wrong. First, the violence did not go away. There were the violent “Not My President’s Day” rallies across the country in February; the violent March 4 disruptions of Trump rallies in California, Minnesota, Tennessee, and Florida; the April anti-Trump tax rallies, supposedly aimed at forcing Trump to release his tax returns; the July impeachment rallies, seeking to build momentum for Trump’s removal from office; and the multiple eruptions at Berkeley.26 In Portland, leftists threw rocks, lead balls, soda cans, glass bottles, and incendiary devices until police dispersed them with the announcement, “May Day is now considered a riot.” Earlier, at the Minnesota State Capitol, leftists threw smoke bombs into the pro-Trump crowd while others set off fireworks in the building, sending people scrambling in fear of a bomb attack. Among those arrested was Linwood Kaine, the son of Hillary’s vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine.27 More of this, undoubtedly, is in store from the Left over the next four years. What this showed is that the Left was engaging in premeditated violence, violence not as outbreak of passion but violence as a political strategy.”",
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                        "text": "Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.",
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                        "text": "Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been anxious to stop the further effusion of blood, and he trusted that everything would now be done to restore harmony and conciliate the people of the South. He said the emancipation of the Negroes would be no hindrance to the restoring of relations between the two sections of the country, as it would probably not be the desire of the majority of the Southern people to restore slavery then, even if the question were left open to them.",
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                        "text": "“The newly created Darth Vader flexes his Force-muscle as the Emperor's enforcer to maintain order and obedience in a galaxy reeling from civil war and the destruction of the Jedi Order. To the galaxy at large, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker - the Chosen One - died on Coruscant during the siege of the Jedi Temple. And, to some extent, the was true - Anakin was dead. But from the site of Anakin Skywalker's last stand - on the molten surface of the planet Mustafa, where he sought to destroy his friend and former master, Obi-Wan Kanobi - a fearsome spectre in black has risen. Once the most powerful Knight ever known to the Jedi order he is not a disciple of the dark side, a lord of the dreaded Sith, and the avenging right hand of the galaxy's ruthless new Emperor. Seduced, deranged and destroyed by the machinations of the Dark Lord Sidious, Anakin Skywalker is dead ... and Darth Vader lives ...”",
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                        "text": "“Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa clearly show just how dangerous the world is, and how great the challenges facing the intelligence community are going to be in the future as threats to U.S. national security continuously evolve. The U.S. intelligence community did not foresee the sudden collapse of the pro-U.S. regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, the eruption of a civil war in Libya, and the escalating wave of street protests across the Middle East. Then again, no one else in the U.S. government or among our allies abroad did either.”",
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                        "text": "“Slavery happened. That flag stands for segregation. We have monuments to Civil War generals and slave owners, as well as preserved plantations. But we have only one slavery museum, and that was built by a private citizen. We have no national or federal slavery museum. There is no government-funded slavery museum. A proposal to put one in Virginia came through in 2001 and went unfunded and failed. Another one in Richmond reached a similar fate. This is absolutely shameful.”",
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                        "text": "Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.",
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                        "text": "“The country, it seemed, was on the verge of a second civil war, this one over industrial slavery. But Frick was a gambler who cared little what the world thought of him. He was already a villain in the public’s eye, thanks to a disaster of epic proportions three years earlier. Frick and a band of wealthy friends had established the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club on land near an unused reservoir high in the hills above the small Pennsylvania city of Johnstown, 70 miles east of Pittsburgh. The club beautified the grounds around the dam but paid little attention to the dam itself, which held back the Conemaugh River and was in poor condition from years of neglect. On May 31, 1889, after heavy rainfall, the dam gave way, releasing nearly 5 billion gallons of water from Lake Conemaugh into Johnstown and killing 2,209 people. What became known as the Johnstown Flood caused $17 million in damages. Frick’s carefully crafted corporate structure for the club made it impossible for victims to pursue the financial assets of its members. Although he personally donated several thousands of dollars to relief efforts, Frick remained to many a scoundrel, the prototype of the uncaring robber baron of the Gilded Age.”",
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                        "text": "“Karsa shrugged. ‘The Malazan soldiers in Genabaris said the Seven Cities was going to rebel against their occupiers. This is why the Teblor do not make conquests. Better that the enemy keeps its land, so that we may raid again and again.’ ‘Not the imperial way,’ the Daru responded, shaking his head. ‘Possession and control, the two are like insatiable hungers for some people. Oh, no doubt the Malazans have thought up countless justifications for their wars of expansion. It’s well known that Seven Cities was a rat’s warren of feuds and civil wars, leaving most of the population suffering and miserable and starving under the heels of fat warlords and corrupt priest-kings. And that, with the Malazan conquest, the thugs ended up spiked to the city walls or on the run. And the wilder tribes no longer sweep down out of the hills to deliver mayhem on their more civilized kin. And the tyranny of the priesthoods was shattered, putting an end to human sacrifice and extortion. And of course the merchants have never been richer, or safer on these roads. So, all in all, this land is rife for rebellion.”",
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                        "text": "“Flag committee chairman Miles did not agree with that sentiment. He opposed adoption of this design and wrote:\"There is no propriety in retaining the ensign of a government which, in the opinion of the States composing this Confederacy, had become so oppressive and injurious to their interests as to require their separation from it.It is idle to talk of 'keeping' the flag of the United States when we have voluntarily seceded from them.”",
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                        "text": "“Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She was splintered wood and sea water. They said she reminded them of the war. On her fifteenth birthday you taught her how to tie her hair like rope and smoke it over burning frankincense. You made her gargle rosewater and while she coughed, said macaanto girls like you shouldn’t smell of lonely or empty. You are her mother. Why did you not warn her, hold her like a rotting boat and tell her that men will not love her if she is covered in continents, if her teeth are small colonies, if her stomach is an island if her thighs are borders? What man wants to lay down and watch the world burn in his bedroom? Your daughter’s face is a small riot, her hands are a civil war, a refugee camp behind each ear, a body littered with ugly things but God, doesn’t she wear the world well.”",
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                        "text": "...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that \"experience\"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.",
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                        "text": "The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting drama - civil wars and assassinations and revolts and bits breaking off and being forced back in ... But I didn't want my future - however fanciful it was - to be entirely European. The Radchaai aren't meant to be Romans in Space.",
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                        "text": "The withdrawal that Congress is debating now will only effect whether we leave somewhat gracefully or in complete panic and humiliation. Sistani has already made the decision. The Sunnis will not be coming back into the Iraqi government. The die is cast. The civil war will continue. George W. Bush will leave office a complete embarrassment. And he still won't know what happened to him.",
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                        "text": "I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II? Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks - and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well - because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.",
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                        "text": "I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.",
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                        "text": "“Bella Swan: Jasper? Are you sure there's nothing I can do to help? Jasper Hale: Well just your presence alone, your scent, will distract the newborns. Their hunting instinct will take over, and drive 'em crazy. Bella Swan: Good, I'm glad. [Jasper nods and begins to walk away] Bella Swan: . Bella Swan: Hey, [Jasper turns around] Bella Swan: how do you know so much about this? Jasper Hale: I didn't have quite the same upbringing as my adopted siblings. [Rolls up sleeves and shows Bella his arms, which have bite marks on them] Jasper Hale: . Bella Swan: [Hops off Jeep] Those bites are like mine. Jasper Hale: Battle scars [smiles] Jasper Hale: . All the training the Confederate Army gave me was useless against the newborns, but still, I never lost a fight. Bella Swan: Hey, this - this happened during the Civil War? Jasper Hale: I was the youngest major in the Texas Calvary, all without having seen any real battle. Bella Swan: Until...? Jasper Hale: Till I met a certain immortal... Maria”",
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                        "text": "“As the seemingly well-intentioned French journalist spoke about Africa’s scarcity and its limited resources, Nine smiled to himself almost condescendingly. He considered such statements an absolute joke. Africa did not, nor did it ever have, limited resources. Nine knew something the journalist obviously didn’t: Africa was the most abundantly resourced continent on the planet bar none. Like the despots who ruled much of the region, and the foreign governments who propped them up, he knew there was more than enough wealth in Africa’s mineral resources such as gold, diamonds and oil – not to mention the land that nurtured these resources – for every man, woman and child. He thought it unfortunate Africa had never been able to compete on a level playing field. The continent’s almost unlimited resources were the very reason foreigners had meddled in African affairs for the past century or more. Nine knew it was Omega’s plan, and that of other greedy organizations, to siphon as much wealth as they could out of vulnerable Third World countries, especially in Africa. The same organizations had the formula down pat: they indirectly started civil wars in mineral-rich regions by providing arms to opposing local factions, and sometimes even helped to create famines, in order to destabilize African countries. This made the targeted countries highly vulnerable to international control. Once the outside organizations had divided and conquered, they were then able to plunder the country’s resources.”",
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                        "text": "Dear world, my friends, my family, everyone else I love,I have been thinking of this for quite a while… I realized this… Right now, nothing seems possible for me... Every time, I try to gain something good for the benefit of others as well as myself... I always fail. Whenever I try to make things up and hopefully be loved again by a certain person, I just miserably fail... (And don't give me that oh I'm just trying to get attention or get people to symphasize and pity and all that bullshit... I don't want to hear it!) All I'm doing is I'm trying to say something out of truth in hopes that someone may read and know what happened here... but I don't care if that never happens... It's not like I expected anyone to give a flip about a 18 year old hopeless and unloved wretch like myself. 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                        "text": "“Entertaining is a way of life for the Southern girl. We’ve been doing it for over three hundred years now, and we’re not too shy to say we’re just about the best in the world at it. There really doesn’t have to be an occasion to entertain in the South. Just about any excuse will do, from the anniversary of your friend’s divorce (a “comfort” party) to national flag day (Southern girls are always eager to show the flag the respect it’s due). Parties in the South have always been big affairs. In pre--Civil War days, it was a long way between plantations on bad roads (or no roads at all), so parties lasted for days on end. The hostess spared no expense, with lavish dances, beautiful dresses, and meals that went on and on, with all the best dishes the South had to offer: from whole roast pig to wild game stew. After all, plantation parties were a circuit. You might go to twenty parties a year, but you were only going to throw one--so you better make it memorable, darlin’. Grits work hard to keep this tradition alive. The Junior League and Debutante balls are not just coming out parties for our daughters, god bless them, they are the modern version of old Southern plantation balls. The same is true of graduation, important birthdays, yearly seasonal galas, and of course our weddings.”",
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