September 2009
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And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the...
– Book of Revelation, Chapter 19, verse 15 - John of Patmos
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All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they...
– Charles A. Beard
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That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange æons, even death may...
– H.P. Lovecraft -Quoting the Necronomicon, in “The Nameless City”
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
– Oliver Cromwell
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I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not come. I say only they will not...
– John Jervis, Lord St Vincent, First Lord of the Admiralty (1801)
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A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
– Marcus Aurelius
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The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you,
to...
– Genghis Khan (1206–1227)