Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?
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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
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I've never even been inside of a dome. I've played football in a basketball gym, but never basketball inside a football arena.
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His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.
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Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box, They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
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[Davis touched many lives and left behind a legacy of good works. In good times and bad, he was always involved. John Rossi, a North Merrick Board of Education trustee, met Davis in the wake of the 2003 Mepham High School football scandal.] I remember that on a cold night in December 2003, as disturbing revelations continued to unfold about the Mepham football camp, a diverse group of community members gravitated to each other inside a church in Bellmore, ... Emotions spilled in every direction, and someone asked, 'Where are our school board members in all of this?' and John Davis stood up and said, 'I'm a school board member.?
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity
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The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.
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I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
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Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives
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We are all living inside a box and we get our information from a box. The box is not real, but we are.
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