"In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed would have been the 1914 combination of Britain, France and Russia. Indeed, if such an alliance had acted decisively to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hitler might even have been overthrown by his own military. But it was not to be."

-- Niall Ferguson

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“It is fascinating to see how much Pope Francis relies on the work of the bishops in the Synods.”

Source : "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.
“i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires”
“Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.”
“I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.”
“Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.”
“Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers.”
“I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson”
“The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.”

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