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1 " This is not a promise, this is not threat, it's just the way it's gonna be!!! "
― James A. Michener , The Covenant
2 " a word once written will often accidentally find a life that no one anticipates; it lies "
3 " Women like her looked at their world, rolled up their sleeves, and tried to make it better. Now "
4 " if a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere; "
5 " Detritus, that's the word. The awful accumulation of wrong decisions, improper terms. You scrape away the excrescences of history...and maybe you get down to the bedrock of human society, where diamonds hide. God of my fathers, how I wish we could bring in the psychological drills and probe down to bedrock. "
6 " Never ask such a question!” Rhodes exploded. “Anything can be done if men of good principle determine that it shall be done. Have you the courage to strike for immortal goals?” In "
7 " they believed that the bright, soaring promises of the New Testament could be used as a basis for government; and "
8 " a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere; and "
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10 " Wrong decisions, Jakob, are never inevitable. A wise man can always turn back from a precipice. "
11 " The worst thing a nation can do to itself is to cultivate and maintain a supply of cheap labor. When salaries are kept down, money stops circulating, taxes bring in diminished funds, and everybody loses. "
12 " A minority with machine guns can always protect itself. "
13 " The sanest judgment that can be passed on the genesis of this terrible war between two groups of friends is that it was the result of imperiousness on the English side and intransigence on the Boer. Like "
14 " then it occurred to him that a worthy man dedicates himself not to one particular thing which attracts him, but to all tasks; and he "
15 " Most important fact of war? Keep your army in existence. Lose the battle, but keep your eye on winning the war.” But "
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17 " What the Voortrekkers failed to realize in their moment of victory was that they had offered the covenant to God, not He to them. "
18 " Nevertheless, in obedience to the covenant as they understood it, they had won a signal victory, which confirmed their belief that He had accepted their offer and had personally intervened on their behalf. No "
19 " The Boer nation had become a theocracy, and would so remain. General "
20 " It was language, which tyrannizes us all, "
