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I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and…
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The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices…
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered…
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All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
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Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.
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I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.
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I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
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Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality…
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled…
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless…
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused…
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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no…
— Alexander the Great
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According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his…
— Jeff Cooper
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O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the…
— Cyrus the Great
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If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day…
— Herodotus
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Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past…
— Arrian
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We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
— Mary Renault
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They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this…
— Herodotus
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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
— Robert Graves
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MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It became clear when I got in my car that Persians are only really good for two things. Oil and hummus.
— Chelsea Handler
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Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove?…
— Herman Melville
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The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family…
— Bayard Taylor
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