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We are told that Britain declared war on Germany because of its invasion of Poland, but we are less often reminded that the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the other side, and yet Britain did not declare war on Russia.
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“above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Besides,”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“This leads me to ask how it came to be that Pluto is Mickey’s dog, but Mickey is not Pluto’s mouse. Something is awry in the taxonomic class of mammals in the Disney universe. I”
― The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
― The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
“one should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes;”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“His addiction to millenarianism, his confidence in visions, his prophetic stridency, his hatred of art, and his mistrust of secular scholarship align him with aspects of the modern world most moderns reject: religious obscurantism, extreme fanaticism, irrational fundamentalism.”
― 1492: The Year the Four Corners of the Earth Collided
― 1492: The Year the Four Corners of the Earth Collided
“Frederick the Great was accustomed to say: “The older one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this miserable universe.” Sorel”
― The Prince
― The Prince
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