Caine: What is the best way to deal with force, teacher? Teacher: As we prize peace and quiet above victory, there is a simple and preferred method—run away. —Kung Fu, Warner Brothers (1972) One should not employ force if he ...
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The Deadly Mixture Of Church and State
Not the Church becoming State, but the State becoming Church, mark that well. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880) I am King and Priest. —Leo III, emperor of Byzantium (8th Century) When Sacrifice Is Sin The enemy had assembled his ...
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We see a tall person and we swoon. —Malcolm Gladwell, Blink (2007) A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. — The Declaration ...
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