You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

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