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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to…
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Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt…
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I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e.…
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From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God…
— Martin Buber
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See what is worth learning, and what is worth doing. Thus, you gain an understanding of what is vital, and what is…
— Goswami Kriyananda
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Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.
— George Lois
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Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as…
— Unknown Author
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The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by…
— Mick Taylor
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Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
— Jules Verne
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From tonight onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run…
— Robin Sharma
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There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one…
— Carol Birch
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