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Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.
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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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What good were real feelings anyway?
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We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.
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My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.
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How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.
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For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
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This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.
