History is …………
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Only the dead…….
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
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Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I’d like a cup of
…Law of the land………
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
Tacitus.
… Lawyers………..
At the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee quotes Charles Lamb:
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
… Uncopyrightable
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.
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The relationship of morality and power
The relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James Baldwin
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