"When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed."

-- Walter Russell Mead

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“If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.”
“Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.”
“It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.”
“I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.”
“Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.”

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“No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.”
“Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.”
“That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.”

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