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Via » Commonplace boren.nu In the 1930s also, persons of good intentions accused this flamethrower [lit. cannon-igniter] Winston Churchill of being the principal danger towards world peace. In a sense, these people were correct. Churchill, in opposing Nazism, menaced world peace, a peace of which the terms had been defined by Hitler. The rejection of Continue reading qotd

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I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Substitute damn every time you’re inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. — Mark Twain Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then Continue reading qotd(s)

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From my tumblelog, when silence grew too small, she spoke: I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. — Emily Dickinson