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1 " An army is a miniature of the society which produces it. "
― C.L.R. James , The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
2 " We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniature with a mop; we expect them to help us to grip and dissect that which in ultimate essence is as ungrippable as shadow. Nevertheless there they are; we have got to live with them, and the wise course is to treat them as we do our neighbours, and make the best and not the worst of them. "
― Samuel Butler , The Note Books Of Samuel Butler
