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The American

by Henry James

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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

by Samuel P. Huntington

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“So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
And there was no day like that before or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.”
― Book of Joshua, verse 10

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“and something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world's remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.”
― Marina Keegan The Opposite of Loneliness

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“Evolutionists don't step in mud.
They just wallow in self imagined
primordial slime that no self respecting
potter would ever fashion into clay.”
― David Coutts

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