"Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence."

-- Thomas Paine

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“Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the Union army. But this did not last. Northerners may have disapproved of slavery in the South but, once the bloodletting began in earnest, their willingness to die for that conviction began to wane. [...] Lincoln faced the embarrassing reality that he soon would have no army to carry on the crusade.”
“Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.”
“poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.”
“I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.”
“I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.”
“Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.”
“My all-time favorite match that I've ever had was against Kyle O'Reilly in 2012, the 'hybrid fighting rules match' where we were bleeding buckets all over the place. And it was really a match that took my career to the next level.”

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