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“The gods are fugitive guests of literature.”
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“It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.”
Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.230, Columbia University Press
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“We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.”
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“The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.”
Source : "US denies spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel". "AM" with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. October 24, 2013. 
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“Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.”
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“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes.”
Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.16, Library of America
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“Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.”
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“Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.”
