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“It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.”
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“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”
Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.
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“I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”
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“Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.21
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“It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.”
Source : "The Manipulator" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2004. 
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“Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.”
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“When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.”
Source : Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
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“I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn’t realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life,”
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“I am your forest, your earth, your eternity. I am your life. I am your death. I am all things forever and always. Love me. Love me. Forever love me.”
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“A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.”
